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John Wesley
Traveling Anglican minister who founded Methodism: Christian religion but believed that they should love and care for everyone and do everything to the glory of God. -
John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor that subsidized experiments of James Watt and is known for the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid, which is a highly corrosive strong mineral acid that has a large number of domestic uses. -
Richard Arkwright
English inventor, leading entrepreneur who invented a machine for carding (process that disentangles, cleans and intertwines fibers to produce a web that can be processed) and is credited with water powered cotton mills. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
French Chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt (used as a water softener when laundering) -
Adam Smith
Scottish economist, philosopher, and author, plus a moral philosopher who published "The Wealth of Nations" and supported free market system -no interference from government, just supply and demand operating business. -
James Watt
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, chemist who improved on Newcomen Steam Engine with his Watt Steam Engine which was crucial to changes during Industrial Revolution. -
Edmund Cartwright
English inventor that invented the power loom, designed to weave cloth and tapestry. -
Jeremy Bentham
English philosopher, jurist, social reformer, founder of modern utilitarianism (ethical theory which states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility - "greatest happiest principle"). -
Eli Whitney
American inventor who created the cotton gin which produced more cotton in 1 hour than what multiple workers could produce in a day. -
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemistry, inventor, of electrical battery - first source of continuous current - and discoverer of methane. -
Robert Fulton
Initially an artist, he built the first successful submarine for the Navy, then a commercially successful steamboat. -
Elias Howe
American inventor awarded the first United States patent for creating the sewing machine.