Industrial Revolution Leaders

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    IR leaders

  • Jethro Tull and the seed drill

    it was a horse drawn hoe, improved plough experience and required less man power

  • Thomas Nwcomen and the steam engine

    simple task of retriveing water from the ground

  • John Kay and the flying shuttle

    The flying shuttle was an improvement to the loom and helped the weavers weave faster

  • James Watt Improved steam engine

    Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer who improved the Newcomen steam engine were crucial to the Industrial Revolution

  • Richard Arkwright and the water frame

    The water frame produced stronger threads or yarn

  • David Ricardo the Economist

    British political economist. One of the most influential of the classical economists

  • Adam smith and The Weatlh of Nations

    Scottish moral philosopher an Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • James hargreves

    James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter and inventor on of the three men involved in making spinning

  • Eli Whitney and the cotton gin

    cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation

  • Greorge Stephenson and the locomotive

    Georges locomotive went up a four mile trek at a pace of about five miles an hour

  • Karl Marx

    German philosopher, economic socialist, revolutionary socialist, journalist

  • Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule

    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule