inventors and inventions

  • John Roebuck

    John Roebuck
    developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric acid.created the steam engine.
  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull
    was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1700
  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby
    developed the coke burning blast furnace that made it possible to produce commercial grade iron cost-effectively.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
    English inventor who created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712.
  • Robert Owens

    Robert Owens
    Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer,new invention for spinning cotton thread.
  • Adam smith

    Adam smith
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations the first comprehensive system of political economy.
  • James Watt

    James Watt
    Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776.
  • Samuel Crompton

    Samuel Crompton
    English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule.
  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort
    Henry Cort was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, He invented the puddling process in 1784.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin.
  • David Ricardo

    David Ricardo
    classical economist best known for his theory on wages and profit, labor theory of value,theory of rents, and theory of comparative advantage.
  • john wesley

    john wesley
    English preacher, and founder of the Methodist movement,created the celluloid.