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Industrial Revolution Timeline
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Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was a inventor from Berkshire, who helped revolutionize agriculture by inventing the seed drill, which buries seeds to a specific depth at a fast pace. -
Abraham Darby
English Inventor who created Coke Smelting, Began The Revolution -
Adam Smith
By Writing "The Wealth Of Nations", he changed how Business worked, by arguing for free exchange. -
James Watt
A Scottish Inventor who improved The Current Steam Engine and Invented a better one -
Samuel Crompton
Created the "spinning Mule", which Produced Masses of High Quality Yarn. However, he made very little Profit from it regardless of how Successful it was. -
Henry Cort
Invented"Puddling", which was the first time Iron could ever be produces on a large scale, replaced Hammering -
Nicolas LeBlanc
French Chemist and Surgeon who began making Sodium Carbonate ( Soda Ash ) from Sodium Chloride ( Salt ) -
Eli Whitney
American Inventor who created the Cotton Gin, which advanced Agriculture massively. Although his Invention was extremely successful, he made no money from it and ran away from Georgia in debt. -
Robert Fulton
American Engineer and Inventor who created the first commercially successful steamboat, Named Clermont -
David Ricardo
Best Known for his Theory(s) on Wages, Profit, Rent, and Comparative Advantage -
Cyrus Field
American Businessman and Financier who created the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean -
John Wesley
Inventor From New York who invented the First Industrial Plastic, called Celluloid
