Inventors and their inventions

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  • Jethro Tull

    A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly

  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham invented coke(roasted coal) smelting, rather than charcoal. This development was a major step forward and changed the course of the iron industry in the Industrial Revolution that was to follow.

  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine. Combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of lifting water out of a tin mine.

  • James Hargreaves

    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution.

  • Richard Arkwright

    The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.

  • Nicholas Leblanc

    French surgeon and chemist who in 1790 developed the process for making soda ash from common salt

  • Eli Whitney

    She invented the cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

  • Alessandro Volta

    His "voltaic pile" operated by placing pieces of cloth soaked in salt water between pairs of zinc and copper discs,

  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton designed and operated the world's first commercially successful steamboat. It made transportation and trade by the river more feasible.

  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine.

  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field was a wealthy merchant and investor who masterminded the creation of the transatlantic telegraph cable in the mid-1800s. Thanks to Field's persistence, news which had taken weeks to travel by ship from Europe to America could be transmitted within minutes.

  • John Wesley

    John invented the first Celluloid. Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.