-
Abraham Darby
British ironmaster who first successfully smelted iron ore with coke.He created the first iron bridge. -
Thomas Newcomen
The first recorded Newcomen engine was created near Dudley Castle, Staffordshire. -
Jethro Tull
He developed a horse-drawn hoe and successfully adopted the vineyard method to his farm.He then published The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: Or an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. -
James Hargreaves
Invented the Spinning Jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn. A single worker could make 8 spools of yarn at once. -
Adam Smith
Wrote the book called "The wealth of Nations. It has great influence on the subject of political economy. -
Henry Cort
British discoverer of the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron. -
Edmund Cartwright
Created the power loom; a steam-powered loom that mechanically operated the version of a regular loom.This combined threads to make cloth. -
James Watt
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the Newcomen steam engine led to its wide use in industry; created a more powerful and efficient steam engine. -
Eli Whitney
Created a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds called Cotton Gin. It made cotton highly profitable and the south more dependent on slaves -
Robert Fulton
This was a steampowered boat known as the North River Steamboat & reached speed up to 6mph to go upstream. Passenger service between NYC & NJ. It was a commercial success. -
Elias Howe
Created the sewing machine, major improvement was that he put a groove in the needle running away from the point, starting from the eye. -
Cyrus Field
American businessman who laid the first telegraph wire across the Atlantic. This cut down the time it took for a message to be sent from Europe to American and vice-versa.
