Please choose a inventor during the time of the Industrial Revolution. Please explain what the invention you chose did. Who invented it? What was the purpose of that invention? And if you believe if it was successful or not? Please be sure to explain.
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Several developments in textile machinery occurred in a relatively short history period during the industrial revolution. Information on the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, water frame, spinning mule, power loom and the cotton gin. Inventors: John Kay, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Edmund Cartwright and Eli Whitney.
eli whitley is the inventor of my choice.
he invented the cotton gin. the importance of the cotton gin was to take the seeds from the cotton and clean them. i believe it was extremely succesful because the cotton was a major resource for clothin and when the cotton gin was invented then the production rates skyrocketed.
While Thomas Savery patented the first crude steam engine in 1698. Thomas Newcomen improved on this design. However, it wasn't until Scotsman James Watt improved on the steam engine in the second half of the 18th century that it became a truly viable piece of machinery that helped start the Industrial Revolution.Basically, a steam engine is able to harness the energy of steam to move machinery. It is a fairly clean source of energy. Steam engines were used to great effect to run locomotives and steamships. 1.Steam engines are still used today to help run nuclear power plants.
2.The Watt - a unit of power familiar today when dealing with lightbulbs - was named after James Watt.
3.James Watt came up with the term 'horsepower' as a way to help explain how much work his steam engines could do for a potential buyer.
Alexander Graham bell invent the Telephone in 1876.
the purpose of that invention is that the people could have some ways to comunicate for emergency or somethings like that and yes I believe that was succesful becouse now the telephone is a good way to comunicate with families, friends, for jobs etc, so I think this would be very important for the cominity and the world. I choose the telephone becouse is good to the people are informated about werw come from the technologic things.
Scotsman James Watt improved on the steam engine in the second half of the 18th century that it became a truly viable piece of machinery that helped start the Industrial Revolution.Steamships and steam locomotives allowed for the quicker transportation of raw materials that could be used to produce finished goods.the Watt is a unit of power was named after James Watt.
Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in 1844. The purpose was to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. I believe that this invention was successful because by inventing the sewing machine, it helped sew clothes faster. The number of clothes made increased from the use of the machine.
Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright
Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first airplane in 1903. The ability to fly had long been a dream of the human race. Within a few decades planes had changed the face of personal and business travel and had dramatically altered warfare.
Several developments in textile machinery occurred in a relatively short history period during the industrial revolution. Information on the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, water frame, spinning mule, power loom and the cotton gin. Inventors: John Kay, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Edmund Cartwright and Eli Whitney.
A hundred years ago, most people thought that human beings would never fly. How could people fly without wings? The whole idea of flying seemed crazy and dangerous. Yet a new century was dawning and with it, a new world full of new discoveries. It was a time where everyone was trying to break the old limits and boundaries. So many inventors, including Orville and Wilbur Wright, tried to invent a flying machine.
Most airplane inventors at the time were impulsive and disorganized; they would think of an idea, build a plane as quickly as they could, and then try to fly it as soon as possible. Some people tried strapping wings to their arms. Other inventors created planes that looked like giant bouncing umbrellas. As you can probably guess, most of these planes crashed immediately. The inventors would carry home their broken plane, having no idea why it didn't work.
The Wright brothers were much more scientific and methodical inventors. They believed in testing their ideas in smaller or safer versions before building an actual plane. Scientists today, like the Wright brothers, don't just build things and see what happens; they make observations, then form a hypothesis or guess, and then do more tests to see if their hypothesis is correct. This is known as the "scientific method." For example, the Wright brothers built a wind tunnel to compare wing shape ideas By attaching an old shop fan to a 6-foot-long wooden box, they could blow "wind" on hundreds of different miniature wings and measure with a scale exactly how much lift each wing produced. The Wright brothers also flew countless kites as well as motor-less gliders to test their designs. They studied the way birds move through the air and tried to duplicate it with their models. Throughout all their experiments, Orville and Wilbur took careful notes and measurements so they could analyze what worked and what didn't.
Eventually, the Wright brothers felt they were ready to test their planes, but they needed to find the right spot. They wrote for help to the U.S. Weather Bureau, who told them that Kitty Hawk, North Carolina would make a perfect test site because of its high winds, its hilly terrain, and its sandy dunes (in case of crash landings). In 1900, 1901, and 1902, Orville and Wilbur tested increasingly bigger and more effective gliders. A glider is like a plane except that it has no motor and depends on the wind to propel it. Based on their results, they added a movable tail, dual propellers, wing-warping wires (for steering), and a gasoline-powered motor to their design.
Finally on December 17th, 1903, Orville and Wilbur assembled their most ambitious plane, nicknamed the "Flyer I," on the sand on Kitty Hawk. Flyer I weighed over 600 pounds and had an impressive wingspan of 40 feet. With winter coming, the Wright brothers knew that they had to get this test right, or else they would have to wait for many, many months of bad weather before they could try again. The brothers flipped a coin to see who would be the first pilot. Orville won. With his brother at the controls, Wilbur pushed the plane down the short wooden ramp and it lifted into the air. Flyer I remained airborne for twelve seconds and it traveled just 120 feet, but Orville and Wilbur were ecstatic. Their plane really worked! By the end of the day, both brothers had made successful flights, with Wilbur covering a record 852 feet in 59 seconds. The Wright brothers left Kitty Hawk that day having done the impossible.
However, the Wright brothers were not satisfied with Flyer I. They went back to their shop and over the next two years constructed the Flyer II and then the Flyer III, which proved to be a much more reliable airplane than the original flyer. On October 5th, 1905, Wilbur set an endurance record in the Flyer III, flying over 34 miles in 38 minutes. In 1909, the Wright brothers formed the American Wright Company to manufacture airplanes for the US military. The brothers continued to experiment and modify their design until 1912, when Wilbur died of typhoid fever.
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