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Jethro Tull
He invented the seed drill. the seed drill helped produce better and more abundant crops. the seeds were planted deeper and didn't blow away and this was able to be done reletivly quickly. -
Thomas Newcomen
created a fuel burning engine. that was lin later years changed but before that it helped make transportaion fastor and helped with powering large machines -
john kay
john kay invented the flying shuttle. which was used for weaving and speed up the prosses greatly.it was a step torwad automatic weaving. -
james watt
al though james watt did not invent teh steam boat he made major inprovments. He made the boat faster by making a quicker systeam for turning water into steam. if he didnt inprove this invention there woudl be no locomotives and no machinery powere by coal. -
Richard Arkwright
invented the water frame that made it possible to mass produce strong yarn and he also made it less needed for cotton to be spun by hand. this is all poered by water. -
Henry cort
He invented a new way of turning pig iron into wrought iron in large scales called poddling. you can fing this kind of iron on rail way tracks, in locomotives, and factory machinery. -
Edmund Cartwright
invented interloking bricks for construction and the whool combing machine and he alos invented and alchol engine in 1797. He had a very large controbution to the industral revolution. -
George Stephenson
He made the first evern locomotive. which greatly improved transportation and made life much easier for workers and travelers. -
robert owen
robert owen invented a use for the americian sea island cotton. he alos made improvements to teh qulity of the cotton spun. owen also took part in th 8 hour work day. he said 8 hours labor, 8 hours recreastion and 8 hours rest. -
David Ricardo
He was an economist and he came up with the competitive advanatge theory.this theory basicly states that if more good that have less oportinity cousts are produced than we would gain a large economical advantage. -
cyrus field
He crated the first telegraph cable. queen victoria and president and president james buchanan used this cable to exteange plesentries from ship to ship. during this first attempt the signal was weak so. cyrus rased more funds in order to create a better virsion. -
Eli whitney
invented the cotton gin which inturn raised the economy in the south making cotton production better an dfaster than before. also he came up with the idea of using intercharable parts which helped to kick of the industral revolution in the south.