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1 | Which IR? | Categories | Energy | Manufacturing | Agriculture | Transportation | Information | Medicine | Dependencies | Energy | Manufacturing | Agriculture | Transportation | Information | Medicine | ||||||
2 | I | Mechanisation | x | x | x | - Power looms slowly built over a century from de Gennes onwards - Flying shuttles, spinning frames and spinning jennies - Using energy dense coke as replacement for charcoal - Chemistry advances, incl production of soda ash and bleaching powder - Cast iron, and later rolling and puddling, and invention of steel - Functional steam engine to supply power - Machine tools starting with Wilkinson's boring machine - Steam power depends on steel and materials | - Power looms slowly built over a century from de Gennes onwards - Flying shuttles, spinning frames and spinning jennies - Using energy dense coke as replacement for charcoal - Chemistry advances, incl production of soda ash and bleaching powder - Cast iron, and later rolling and puddling, and invention of steel - Functional steam engine to supply power - Machine tools starting with Wilkinson's boring machine | - Steam power depends on steel and materials - | |||||||||||||
3 | I | Steam Engine | x | x | x | - Iron making, puddling process, hot blast - Thermodynamic theory - Built off of aeolipiles, reciprocating engines - James Watt builds the steam engine, improved to the Cornish engine - Thermodynamics knowhow again, re pressure and heat | - Iron making, puddling process, hot blast - Thermodynamic theory | - Built off of aeolipiles, reciprocating engines - James Watt builds the steam engine, improved to the Cornish engine - Thermodynamics knowhow again, re pressure and heat | - | ||||||||||||
4 | II | Railroads | x | - Cheaper and better steel - Better coal mining and purification processes | - Cheaper and better steel - Better coal | ||||||||||||||||
5 | II | Petroleum and rubber | x | x | - Petroleum refining led by slow distillation - Learning cable tool drilling from China - Burton process for thermal cracking - Vulcanisation of rubber | - Petroleum refining led by slow distillation - Learning cable tool drilling from China - Burton process for thermal cracking - Vulcanisation of rubber | |||||||||||||||
6 | II | Fertilizers | x | - Chemistry to help with superphosphates and ammonium sulphate - Haber process to get ammonia | - Chemistry to help with superphosphates and ammonium sulphate - Haber process to get ammonia - | ||||||||||||||||
7 | II | Motors | x | x | - Bessemer process for making steel - Cowper stove for blast furnaces to produce pig iron - An understanding of thermodynamics and physics of pressure - Maxwell's electromagnetic theory | - Bessemer process for making steel - Cowper stove for blast furnaces to produce pig iron - An understanding of thermodynamics and physics of pressure - Maxwell's electromagnetic theory | |||||||||||||||
8 | II | Paper | x | - Cheaper paper from wood courtesy Fenerty and Keller's inventions | - Cheaper paper from wood courtesy Fenerty and Keller's inventions | ||||||||||||||||
9 | II | Electrochemicals | x | - Electrification helped make production of aluminium, chroline, magnesium etc cheaper | - Electrification helped make production of aluminium, chroline, magnesium etc cheaper | ||||||||||||||||
10 | II | Electrification | x | x | x | - Faraday's research on electromagnetic fields - His invention of electromagnetic rotary devices - Power station through step up and step down transformers - DC motors developed by Frank Sprague | - Faraday's research on electromagnetic fields - His invention of electromagnetic rotary devices - Power station through step up and step down transformers - DC motors developed by Frank Sprague | ||||||||||||||
11 | II | Communication tech | x | - Morse's single wire system - Orsted, Schweigger, Ampere, Gauss, Sturgeon - inventing the physics - Grafton Page on galvanic music, Bell gets to harmonic telegraph | - Morse's single wire system - Orsted, Schweigger, Ampere, Gauss, Sturgeon - inventing the physics - Grafton Page on galvanic music, Bell gets to harmonic telegraph | ||||||||||||||||
12 | II | Ships, cars | x | - Screw propellers and Brunel's Great Britain helping launch modern ships - Better engines and purpose built machine tools - The assembly line and mass production - Internal combustion engine and electric motors - Better fuels (liquid, gas) and lubricants | - Screw propellers and Brunel's Great Britain helping launch modern ships - Better engines and purpose built machine tools - The assembly line and mass production - Internal combustion engine and electric motors - Better fuels (liquid, gas) and lubricants | ||||||||||||||||
13 | II | Vaccines | x | - Variolation -> Pasteur's work and cell cultures | - Variolation -> Pasteur's work and cell cultures | ||||||||||||||||
14 | II | Antibiotics | x | - Ehrlich's work to create arsphenamine, looking at dyes - Fleming discovering penicillin, and others developing further purification methods | - Ehrlich's work to create arsphenamine, looking at dyes - Fleming discovering penicillin, and others developing further purification methods | ||||||||||||||||
15 | III | Chips | x | - Discovery of diodes - New materials - copper oxide, selenium - Purer carborundum crystals that had impurities creating a solid state diode - Ohl and Brattain developed theory of surface physics | - Discovery of diodes - New materials - copper oxide, selenium - Purer carborundum crystals that had impurities creating a solid state diode - Ohl and Brattain developed theory of surface physics | ||||||||||||||||
16 | III | Digital comms | x | - The internet, and information edge starting from Shannon | - The internet, and information edge starting from Shannon | ||||||||||||||||
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