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Abraham Darby
Invented Sand Casting. Was a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material -
Thomas Newcomen
Invented the Newcomen atmospheric engine. The engine pumped water using a vacuum created by condensed steam. It became an important method of draining water from deep mines and was therefore a vital component in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. -
Jethro Tull
Invented the Seed Drill. The seed drill allows farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths at a specific seed rate; each tube creates a hole of a specific depth, drops in one or more seeds, and covers it over. -
James Watt
Invented the Watt Steam Engine. This operated on the principle of a pressure difference created by a vacuum on one side of the piston to push the steam piston down. -
Samuel Crompton
Invented the Spinning Mule. This was a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. -
Edmund Cartwright
Invented the Wool Combing Machine. Was used to arrange and lay parallel by length the fibers of wool, prior to further treatment. The machine was important in the mechanization of the textile industry. -
Eli Whitney
Invented the Cotton Gin. The cotton gin is a machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed. -
Robert Owen
Was a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Utopian socialism is socialism achieved by the moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender the means of production peacefully to the people. -
George Stephenson
Invented Stephenson's Rocket. Was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines -
Karl Marx
Created Communism. Published “The Communist Manifesto,” which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. -
Cyrus Field
Invented the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. It was a revolution to technology that was used to unite the continents. Although it took many tries to establish a connection with all the continents, in the end it made communication much easier and faster. -
Elias Howe
Invented the sewing machine. It made sewing much easier ,and faster. It used to be done by hand.
