Industrial Revolution Inventors

By Maddy16
  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby

    Developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fulled by coke rather than charcoal
  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull

    Part of the British Agricultural Revolution, invented the horse- drawn seed drill in 1700. Helped plant seeds in neat even rows
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves

    Weaver, carpenter. Inventor of the "spinning Jenny"
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Became famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations
  • John Roebuck

    John Roebuck

    Industrial, scale manufacturer of Sulfuric Acid
  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort

    English inventor. inventor of the molten iron paddling process rods
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

    Developed a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Clermont
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    Inventor of the cotton gin
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson

    English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Called "The father of Railways"
  • John kay

    John kay

    Invented the flying shuttle
  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field

    Laid the fist telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858
  • John Wesley

    John Wesley

    American Inventor, production of celluloid. First industrial plastic