Industrial Revolution Investors/inventions/constributions

  • Jethro Tull

    he was an English agricultural pioneer, and inventor of the seed drill, it was horse drawn and it improved plowing
  • Abraham Darby

    He came up with a method of making pig iron in a furnace fulled by coke and not coal, also in 1708 he founded the British Iron Company
  • Thomas Newcomen

    He was an English inventor, he invented the steam engine. the steam engine was very expensive, it removed 10 gallons of water from up to depths of 156 feet
  • John Wesley

    He was an cleric and theologian, He found the Methodism Church
  • Jeremy Bentham

    He was an English philosopher, born in 1748. He was known as the "fundamental axiom" he said that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong"
  • Richard Artwright

    He was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur. He invented the spinning frame. It was the first cotton mill. It was also the first mill to use a steam engine, which pumped water onto a waterwheel
  • Robert Owen

    he was a Welsh textile manufacturer Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory worker,
  • David Ricardo

    he was an was a British political economist, known for his theory on wages and profit, labor theory of value, theory of comparative advantage, and theory of rents.
  • Adam Smith

    He was a Scottish economist. He wrote what some call the "bible of capitalism," The Wealth of Nations, which is about the first system of a political economy
  • James Watt

    He was an Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist Watt steam engine, which was had brought a advantage to the changes of the Industrial Revolution in both native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
  • George Stephenson

    He was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. He was the lead engineer in construction of the first public railway. In the following year he made the railway that traveled from Liverpool to Manchester
  • Karl Marx

    He was an German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. he had a theory In Marxist theory, the capitalist stage of production consists of two main classes: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists that who owned the means of production