Industrial Revolution

Richard Arkwright

Dec 23, 1732

Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. he also devised a simple but remarkable spinning machine. In his early career as a wig-maker, Arkwright traveled widely in Great Britain and began his lifelong practice of self-education.

James Watt

Jan 19, 1736

James Watt FRS, FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

Cotton Gin

1793

A cotton gin, meaning "cotton engine" is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Handheld roller gins had been used in the Indian subcontinent since at earliest AD 500 and then in other regions.

Charles Darwin

Feb 12, 1809

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept.

Henry Bessemer

Jan 19, 1812

Sir Henry Bessemer FRS was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield, nicknamed ‘Steel City’, as a major industrial Centre.

Gulglielmo Marconi

Apr 25, 1874

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and politician. He was known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. Marconi was offered free passage on Titanic before she sank, but had taken Lusitania three days earlier.

Airplane

Dec 17, 1903

Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane. The 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk and North Carolina. the first flight went for 227.3 mi.

Assembly Line

1913

An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation. With parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.