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Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine. He was an ironmonger by trade and a Baptist lay preacher by calling. -
John Kay
John Kay created the flying shuttle, which enabled automatic weavers to work so fast that they soon outpaced spinners. -
John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor that introduced leaden condensing chambers in the manufacture of sulfuric acid. -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves solved John Kay's problem of extremely fast paced weavers by producing the spinning jenny, which spun many threads at the same time -
Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright patented the water frame, a spinning machine powered by water. -
Adam Smith
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist who is best known as the author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth Of Nations, one of the most influential books ever written. -
Nicolas Leblanc
A french surgeon and chemist who discovered how to develop soda from common salt, "The Leblanc Process" was key to making products from salt ash -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin , which was a machine that greatly sped up the production of cotton by removing the seeds from the cotton fibers. -
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. -
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher, economist, jurist, and legal reformer and the 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. -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus Field was a wealthy merchant and investor who masterminded the creation of the transatlantic telegraph cable -
John Wesley
John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor and industrialist who discovered the process for making celluloid, the first practical artificial plastic.