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Jethro Tull and the seed drill
Jethro created the seed drill, the seed drill a mechanical seeder that sowed efficiently at the correct depth and spacing and then covered the seed so that it could grow. -
James Watt and the steam engine
Machine that uses steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat.The steam engine resulted in the creation of semi-automated factories, and it increased goods production in places where water power was not available -
John Kay and the flying shuttle
The role of the shuttle is to insert the weft between the warp threads on the loom. -
Abraham Darby and iron smelting
It was used to make tools, machines, and buildings. The traditional method of iron production was called 'smelting'. This involved heating iron ore in a furnace until it liquefied, and then pouring it into moulds to cool and solidify. -
Jeremy Bentham and Panopticon
founder of modern utilitarianism, an ethical theory holding that actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness or pleasure (and morally wrong if they tend to promote unhappiness or pain) among all those affected by them -
Richard Arkwright and the water frame
Installed in water powered factories, the machine could spin large quantities of cotton yarn. -
Edmund Cartwright and the Power Loom
mechanised device used to weave cloth and tapestry. It was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
enabled the rapid separation of seeds from cotton fibres. Built in 1793, the machine helped make cotton a profitable export crop in the southern United States and further promoted the use of slavery for cotton cultivation. -
Alessandro Volta and Batteries
Alessandro's battery produced a constant electric current, opening the way for many other discoveries and inventions; it also provided power for the telegraph and telephone industries. -
Elias Howe and the sewing machine
to stitch the fabric and other pliable materials together with threads.Sewing machines are still very popular and are used till this day. -
Cyrus Field and the Transatlantic Cable
undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. -
John Wesley and the first artificial plastic
In the late 1860s, while searching for a substitute for ivory for making billiard balls, Hyatt combined nitrocellulose, camphor, and alcohol and heated the mixture under pressure to make it pliable for molding.