List of English Inventions and Discoveries - 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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