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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Abraham Darby
Founder of the Bristol Iron company -
Thomas Newcomen
Invented the first atmospheric steam engine. Installed the first working one in 1712 -
Richard Arkwright
Invented the horse driven spinning mill. Created mills that produced yarn. -
James Watt
Invented the Watt steam engines. The first 2 were installed in 1776 -
Samuel Crompton
Invented the spinning mule which permitted large scale manufacture of high quality thread and yarn. -
Edmund Cortwright
Invented the first power loom. -
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin which helped end the manual picking of the cotton seed. -
Robert Fulton
Invented the first submarine. -
George Stephenson
Invented the "Blucher" the first and his first locomotive for hauling coal from mines. -
Alessandro Valto
Italian physicist that invented the electric battery powered by the first source of continuous current. -
Karl Marx
Contributed to his theoretical base for modern international communism -
John Wesley
Simplified the production of celluloid the first industrial plastic.