Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution: Quick Facts

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Copperplate engraving of a spinning jenny textile machine, showing a large hand wheel, multiple spindles, and wooden frame used for woolen yarn production.

Diagram titled Spinning jenny showing an operator using a hand wheel to rotate a cord-driven roller, drawing and twisting fibers from multiple clamped rovings onto tilted spindles; numbered callouts trace the process from roving to thread.

rotative steam engine

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Patent diagram for Jan Ernst Matzeliger's shoe-lasting machine patented in 1883

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