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Jethro Tull
In 1701 Jethro perfected the horse drawn seed drill that economically sowed seeds into the ground. this is a notable advance to what they used to do when the spread seeds by hand -
James Watt
Watt was impressed by the amount of steam being wasted from the train. So he teamed up with John Roebuck who urged him to make the engine. After making small test engines with loans from Joseph Black the following year Watt took out a patent for it. -
John Kay
Kay was placed in charge of his father’s mill while still a youth. He made many improvements in dressing, batting, and carding machinery. He received a patent for a “New Engine or Machine for Opening and Dressing Wool” that incorporated his flying shuttle -
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish political economist and philosopher. He has become famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations -
Samuel Crompton
As a youth Crompton spun cotton on a spinning jimmy for his family. its defects inspired him to try to invent a better device after devoting all his spare time and money to the effort, he produced a machine that simultaneously drew out and gave the final twisting to the cotton fibers fed into it, -
Henry Cort
Henry was a English Iron master during the industrial revolution in England he began refining iron from pig iron. He patented the puddling process for refining iron. -
Edmund Cartwright
He was a clergy man but quickly turned his attention to Sir Richard Arkwright’s cotton-spinning mills. He was inspired to make a similar machine for weaving, so he invented a crude power loom. -
Eli Whitney
Green seed cotton was widely available, it took hours of manual labor to properly to clean the seed and extract the fibers. With the help of Greene, Whitney worked all winter to make a machine that quickly and efficiently clean cotton. And he also created the interchangeable parts. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
The main source for soda was wood ashes, and the wood supply in industrial Europe was diminishing. So he wanted to create a new way to make sodium carbonate. The process by which Leblanc developed sodium carbonate is not known. -
David Ricardo
David worked in a cotton machinery factory. During this time someone suggested him to make a machine that could sew. Finally he was granted a patent, it didn't work out no one would buy it so he sold the patent and moved. -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus was an American businessman financier, along with other entrepreneurs they created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean. -
John Wesley
John Wesley was an American Inventor and industrialist he mainly known for his discovering the process of making celluloid, the first practical artificial plastic