industrial revolution inventors inventions contributions

  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull

    Seed Drill
  • Abraham Darby

    made smelting powered by Coke rather than charcoal
  • John Kay

    inventor of the spinning shuttle
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Wealth of nations
  • Samuel Crompton

    Spinning mule
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    watt's linkage
    watt's steam engine
  • Nicolas LeBlanc

    French Chemist/Surgeon who manufactured soda ash from salt
  • Eli Whintey

    Eli Whintey

    Cotton Jib
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

    inventor of the Steamboat
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Communist manifesto
  • Cryus Field

    American entreprenuer of the atlantic telegraph company
  • John Wesley

    Made Methodist an offical religon