![]() Cort also developed heavy-duty steam-powered rolling mills, which were capable of spewing out finished iron in every shape and form. steam engine external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder power loom a loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side wit hthe spinning machines in factories, changed workers job from running it to watching it, Invented in 1787, invented by Edward Cartwright, it speeded up the production of textiles heavy industry industry that requires a large capital investment and that produces items used in other industries Henry Cort In the 1780s, Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke (made from coal, not the drink or drug). James Watt A Scottish engineer who created the steam engine that worked faster and more efficiently than earlier engines, this man continued improving the engine, inventing a new type of governor to control steam pressure and attaching a flywheel. ![]()
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