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Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull helped promote ideas for agriculture.
He helped in many ways making farming easier and more profitable.
He invented the seed drill which was a machine that improved plough on the ground and was dragged by horse through the fields. -
Thomas Newcomen
He was invented the steam engine that James Watt would improve which jump started the whole Industrial Revolution.
He was an Ironmonger at Dartmouth when he noticed how much it costed to use horse power, so he set out to make a better way of powering it he started experimenting for ten year until he was able to create the steam engine -
Flying Shuttle
The flying Shuttle allowed a single weaver to weave a wider fabric.
It could also be used for weaving machines to produce wider fabric and haver higher quality.
It was invented by John Kay
It was a big part in the Industrial Revolution -
Steam Engine Improvements
The steam Engine was already made, but James Watts improved it.
The steam engine uses steam to operate.
The engine uses the force produced by steam in order to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder.
This was the machine that helped start the Industrial Revolution -
Robert Owens
Robert Owens was the inventor of Socialism.
The idea that both the government and the people can own buildings and tools used for goods and services.
Robert Owens died on 17th, November 1858 at 87 years old. -
Electric Battery
This invention created the first continuous current .
It was invented Alessandro Volta -
Spinning Mule
The spinning Mule was an invention that helped mass produce high quality thread and yarn.
It was invented by Samuel Crompton
It had spinning spindles that rotated and twisted the roving into finer yarn. -
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and social theorist
In the mid- 1700 he invented a social control mechanism that helped a lot of today's modern authority.
A prison system called the Panopticon
It is a concept that allows someone to observe all prisoners without them knowing their being observed. -
The Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was a machine invented by Eli Whitney.
The cotton gin was used to take seeds out of the cotton more effectively and efficiently.
It was powered by a crank that when turned it had the cotton pass through a pass only it could go there and the seeds would be dropped off of it. -
John Roebuck
John Roebuck was a British chemist that helped create the improved steam engine with James Watt.
He is also known for his work in the ironmonger field where he helped teach people a more effective way of turning cast iron into malleable iron
He used chemistry to help with the iron. -
Railroads
These were a huge part in the Industrial revolution.
They allowed people and supplies to travel around faster and reach there destination or where they are needed much faster.
They are tracks for a machine that travels in rapid pace
Its inventor/whos credited is George Stephenson -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus Field created the transatlantic cable.
He didn't really understand the telegraphy, but he knew that it would be useful to have a connection between Europe and America.
It took him 12 long years to complete the cable
He also had a great business sense, so he knew that it would increase the amount of business if he connected Europe and America