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Thomas Newcomen
Combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of drawing water from a tin mine. -
John Deere
developed and built his first steel plow, although whether or not Deere was the first to invent the steel plow is a matter of controversy. -
Eli Whitney
Whitney's greatest contribution to American industry was the development and implementation of the manufacturing system and assembly line. He was the first to use it in the production of muskets for the U.S. government. -
James Watt
In 1769 it was Watt who patented the steam engine as such. That is why some consider Watt to be the actual inventor of the steam engine. With his engine, Watt introduced substantial improvements to previous engines that used steam power very poorly. -
James Hargreaves
Plan for the spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves, 1770. This was a very important invention because it meant that eight threads could be spun at a time -
Samuel Crompton
He modified Arkwright's hydraulic spinning machine with elements of Hargreaves' jenny spinning machine, from which emerged the spinning machine known as the mule-jenny (1779), which played a leading role in the mechanization of the English and European textile industry. -
Henry Cort
an English entrepreneur and metallurgical inventor. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron and converting it from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. -
Edmund Cratwright
Inspired by what he saw, he designed a power loom that was faster and more efficient than existing ones. The machine was patented in 1785, although design flaws made it virtually unusable. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. -
Nicolas Appert
It was a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert, a confectioner by trade, who around 1795 devised a preservation process that was as simple as it was effective. It consisted in placing food in a hermetically sealed glass jar and boiling it for a certain period of time. -
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was an English inventor and engineer and machine builder, who developed the first working steam locomotive. -
R. Fulton
was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, known for developing the first steamboat, which became a commercial success, and for pioneering the development of the first submarines around 1800. -
James Darby
was an Anglo Irish preacher and Bible teacher and a very influential figure among the early Plymouth Brethren. He is considered the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. -
Luddite rebellion in Great Britain
The riots that shook the wool and cotton industries were known as the "Luddite riots". -
George Stephenson
was a British mechanical engineer and civil engineer who built the world's first public railway line to use steam locomotives and the first passenger-carrying railway line to use steam locomotives. -
Antonio Meucci
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and engineer who immigrated to the United States and was the creator of the "teletrofono", later baptized as "telephone", among other technical innovations. -
Samuel MOrse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who, along with his associate Alfred Vail, invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States, the first of its kind. -
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British inventor of French descent, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for producing steel in the 19th century, being used for almost one hundred years. -
First subway of the world in London
first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system. -
Charles Tellier
was a French engineer, builder, in 1858, of the first industrial refrigerating machine. In 1867 Tellier also built the so-called "ammonia horse", which was an ammonia engine capable of pulling a tractor. -
Alexander Graham
Alexander Graham Bell was a British scientist, inventor, speech therapist, naturalized American. He contributed to the development of telecommunications. -
Thomas Alba Edison
was an American inventor, scientist and entrepreneur. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording and motion pictures. These inventions included the phonograph. The electric light bulb. The Edison effect. -
Karl Benz
was a German engineer and inventor, known for having created the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886 along with his wife, this was considered the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. -
Wright Brothers
were two aviators, engineers, inventors and pioneers of aviation, generally named together, and recognized worldwide as the inventors