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Thomas Newcomen
Created the first practical steam engine -
John Wesley
Ordained priest on September 22, 1728. he had traveled over 4,000 miles and preached around 40,000 sermons -
James Hargreaves
weaver, carpenter, and inventor. contributed to the making of the spinning jenny -
Nicholas Leblanc
a french chemist that discovered how to make soda from common salt -
Robert Owen
was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. -
John Roebuck
An English inventor that developed the industrial scale manufacture of sulfuric acid -
James Watt
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. improved on Newcomen's steam engine and made his own in 1781 -
Edmund Cartwright
English inventor who graduated from oxford university. After college he went to create the power loom -
Elias Howe
Invented the sewing machine in 1790 during the industrial revolution -
Alessandro Volta
Chemist and pioneer of electric science who had invented the the electric battery -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort is a ironmaster that started refining iron from pigs iron during the industrial revolution -
George Stephenson
english civil engineer and mechanical engineer, also known as the "Father of the Railways" he had made the steam locomotive and the killingworth locomotive