SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
GCAS 07 2ND SEMESTER
INVENTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION REVOLUTION
1 ELI WHITNEY (1793 - 1798)
WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
● The Cotton Gin
● period from the 18th to the 19th century ● Interchangeable parts for muskets
where major changes in agriculture,
2 HENRY FORD (1908 - 1913)
manufacturing, mining, socioeconomic
and cultural conditions ● Model T Ford
● the Industrial revolution took place in ● Assembly Line
Britain, then subsequently spreading ● invented the assembly line at his
throughout Europe, North America, and automobile company
eventually the world ○ the assembly line reduced
○ the Industrial Revolution marks production time
major turning point in human ● more cars were made available for a lower
history in almost every aspect of cost, making the cars more common
human life
● covers the complex technological 3 Robert Fulton (1807)
innovations that led to the substitution of ● Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson
machines and inanimate power for human River
skills and animal forces
4 James Watt (1775)
WHY DID INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
START? ● created the first reliable steam engine
● before Industrial revolution manufacturing 5 Samuel F. B. Morse (1836)
took place in homes or rural areas and it ● Telegraph
was done by hand
● some products made in home (including 6 Nikola Tesla (1888)
clothing, furniture, tools, cloth, hardware,
● Induction Electric Motor
jewelry, leather, silverware, and weapons)
were even exchange for food 7 Elias Howe (1844)
● but, people lived in fear that the crops they
● Sewing Machine
grew might fail, as many of them already
suffered from malnutrition 8 Isaac Singer (1851)
○ in addition, diseases and other
epidemics were unfortunately ● Improves and markets Howe’s Sewing
common. hence, machines were Machine
introduced to enhance the effective 9 Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
production
● Telephone
Britain
● emerged from this because it had 10 Thomas Edison (1877 - 1879)
natural resources like coal, iron ore, and
● Phonograph
developed farmlands
● Incandescent Light Bulb
● it also had a stable population growth
due to the boosting agricultural system 11 Rudolf Diesel (1892)
● Diesel Engine
, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
GCAS 07 2ND SEMESTER
12 Orville and Wilbur (1903) 1 James Watt Steam Engine
● First Airplane ● factory wonders needed a way to
efficiently and cheaply produce the energy
TRANSPORT SECTOR
needed to power industry
● depended on the ability to transport raw ● a more cost-effective engine was required
materials and finished goods over long to make its use widespread
distances
2 Stephenson’s locomotive
● transportation was important because
people were starting to live in the West. ● the locomotive named “Butcher” that
during this time period, transportation via dragged 30 tons of materials till four miles
water was the cheapest way to move heavy ● this successful presentation marked the
products first steam locomotive journey made on
railroad that was specifically created for
THREE MAIN TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION
train use
● Waterways
● Roads 3 ROBERT FULTON’S ‘STEAMBOAT’
● Railroads
● Fulton’s steamboat was the first to become
a practical, financial, and commercially
1 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS successful steamboat
● Fulton’s steamboat was name as
● successful in flying the first plane ‘Clermont’
● the plane flew for 59 seconds at 852 feet,
an extraordinary achievement AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
2 HENRY FORD ● began in the early 1700s with an
Englishman
● invented the assembly line at his ● crop yields per acre were increased by new
automobile company knowledge about what techniques would
○ the assembly line reduced allow plants to grow new agricultural
production time techniques
● more cars were made available for a lower ● fertilizers, minerals, and soil content were
cost, making the cars more common all factors that started to be taken into
account
STEAM ENGINES
● new tools, and processes were developed
(STEAM POWER)
new plows, rakes, and other implements
● was fuelled by coal, utilization of water began to be used
wheels and powered machinery like
1 Jethro Tull or Seed Drill
steamboat and steam ship
● development of all-metal machine tools in ● Jethro Tull invented a Seed Drill which
the first two decades of the 19th century could be pulled behind a horse
facilitated the manufacture of production ● Seed drill sowed seeds that exactly
● effects spread throughout Western Europe positions the seeds in the soil and then
and North America during the 19th covers them
century affecting most of the world, a ● it would sow seeds in uniform rows
process that continues as industrialization repeatedly instead of the wasteful method
of scattering seeds by hand
GCAS 07 2ND SEMESTER
INVENTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION REVOLUTION
1 ELI WHITNEY (1793 - 1798)
WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
● The Cotton Gin
● period from the 18th to the 19th century ● Interchangeable parts for muskets
where major changes in agriculture,
2 HENRY FORD (1908 - 1913)
manufacturing, mining, socioeconomic
and cultural conditions ● Model T Ford
● the Industrial revolution took place in ● Assembly Line
Britain, then subsequently spreading ● invented the assembly line at his
throughout Europe, North America, and automobile company
eventually the world ○ the assembly line reduced
○ the Industrial Revolution marks production time
major turning point in human ● more cars were made available for a lower
history in almost every aspect of cost, making the cars more common
human life
● covers the complex technological 3 Robert Fulton (1807)
innovations that led to the substitution of ● Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson
machines and inanimate power for human River
skills and animal forces
4 James Watt (1775)
WHY DID INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
START? ● created the first reliable steam engine
● before Industrial revolution manufacturing 5 Samuel F. B. Morse (1836)
took place in homes or rural areas and it ● Telegraph
was done by hand
● some products made in home (including 6 Nikola Tesla (1888)
clothing, furniture, tools, cloth, hardware,
● Induction Electric Motor
jewelry, leather, silverware, and weapons)
were even exchange for food 7 Elias Howe (1844)
● but, people lived in fear that the crops they
● Sewing Machine
grew might fail, as many of them already
suffered from malnutrition 8 Isaac Singer (1851)
○ in addition, diseases and other
epidemics were unfortunately ● Improves and markets Howe’s Sewing
common. hence, machines were Machine
introduced to enhance the effective 9 Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
production
● Telephone
Britain
● emerged from this because it had 10 Thomas Edison (1877 - 1879)
natural resources like coal, iron ore, and
● Phonograph
developed farmlands
● Incandescent Light Bulb
● it also had a stable population growth
due to the boosting agricultural system 11 Rudolf Diesel (1892)
● Diesel Engine
, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
GCAS 07 2ND SEMESTER
12 Orville and Wilbur (1903) 1 James Watt Steam Engine
● First Airplane ● factory wonders needed a way to
efficiently and cheaply produce the energy
TRANSPORT SECTOR
needed to power industry
● depended on the ability to transport raw ● a more cost-effective engine was required
materials and finished goods over long to make its use widespread
distances
2 Stephenson’s locomotive
● transportation was important because
people were starting to live in the West. ● the locomotive named “Butcher” that
during this time period, transportation via dragged 30 tons of materials till four miles
water was the cheapest way to move heavy ● this successful presentation marked the
products first steam locomotive journey made on
railroad that was specifically created for
THREE MAIN TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION
train use
● Waterways
● Roads 3 ROBERT FULTON’S ‘STEAMBOAT’
● Railroads
● Fulton’s steamboat was the first to become
a practical, financial, and commercially
1 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS successful steamboat
● Fulton’s steamboat was name as
● successful in flying the first plane ‘Clermont’
● the plane flew for 59 seconds at 852 feet,
an extraordinary achievement AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
2 HENRY FORD ● began in the early 1700s with an
Englishman
● invented the assembly line at his ● crop yields per acre were increased by new
automobile company knowledge about what techniques would
○ the assembly line reduced allow plants to grow new agricultural
production time techniques
● more cars were made available for a lower ● fertilizers, minerals, and soil content were
cost, making the cars more common all factors that started to be taken into
account
STEAM ENGINES
● new tools, and processes were developed
(STEAM POWER)
new plows, rakes, and other implements
● was fuelled by coal, utilization of water began to be used
wheels and powered machinery like
1 Jethro Tull or Seed Drill
steamboat and steam ship
● development of all-metal machine tools in ● Jethro Tull invented a Seed Drill which
the first two decades of the 19th century could be pulled behind a horse
facilitated the manufacture of production ● Seed drill sowed seeds that exactly
● effects spread throughout Western Europe positions the seeds in the soil and then
and North America during the 19th covers them
century affecting most of the world, a ● it would sow seeds in uniform rows
process that continues as industrialization repeatedly instead of the wasteful method
of scattering seeds by hand
