British Inventions - Industrial Processes

Industrial Processes

  • English crucible steel - Benjamin Huntsman
  • Steel production Bessemer process - Henry Bessemer
  • Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
  • Parkesine, the first man-made plastic - Alexander Parkes
  • Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
  • Sheffield plate - Thomas Boulsover
  • Water frame - Richard Arkwright
  • Stainless steel - Harry Brearley
  • Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
  • Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
  • Parkes process - Alexander Parkes
  • Lead chamber process - John Roebuck
  • Development of the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass using the float glass process - Alastair Pilkington
  • Pioneers of the Industrial Revolution - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Abraham Darby I - Abraham Darby II - Abraham Darby III - Robert Forester Mushet
  • The first commercial electroplating process - George Elkington
  • The Wilson Yarn Clearer - Peter Wilson

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