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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