final exam

PLEASE FILL THE BLANKS WITH THE NUMBERS OF THE RIGHT NAME
1. Thomas Newcomen 2. John Kay 3. John Wyatt 4. Lewis Paul 5. Eli Whitney

1709: Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcoal as fuel.
1712: _____ builds first commercially successful steam engine.
1732: Jethro Tull publishes details of innovations such as the seed drill and the horse-hoe.
1733: _____ of Bury patents the Flying Shuttle.
1738: Lewis Paul and John Wyatt take out a patent for their drafting rollers and the flyer-and-bobbin system.
1743: ______ and Paul open a spinning factory in Northampton with five machines of 50 spindles.
1748: _____ and Daniel Bourn each take out a patent for a carding engine.
1751: Construction of the Sankey-St Helens Canal begins. This cut pre-dates the Duke of Bridgewater’s canal by five years.
1754: John Kay invents an improved carding machine.
1761: James Brindley’s Bridgewater Canal opens. Barges carry coal from Worsley to Manchester.
1762: Matthew Boulton opens his Soho engineering works in Birmingham.
1764: Thomas Highs of Leigh builds the first spinning jenny.
1767: Blackburn’s James Hargreaves develops a spinning jenny
1775: Watt’s first efficient steam engine, much more efficient than the Newcomen.
1779: First steam powered mills.
1787: Cartwright builds a power loom.
1793: ______ develops his cotton gin