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Jethro Tull and his seed drill
Jethro Tull was a great agricultural inventor, making the horse drawn hoe, the improved plow, and the seed drill. -
Abraham Darby and his coke smelted iron
An English Quaker who smelted iron with coke and founded the Bristol Iron Company -
Thomas Newcomen and his atmospheric steam engine
Thomas Newcomen used his high cost atmospheric pressure driven device to pump out water from mines; precursor for the Watt design -
John Kay and his flying shuttle
John Kay invented the Flying shuttle, an important step to automatic weaving -
Richard Arkwright and his spinning frame
Richard Arkwright was an English inventor who created the spinning frame, a device that wove 128 threads at a time into fabric. -
Samuel Crompton and his spinning mule
An inventor who spun cotton ever since he was young, he went on to create the Spinning mule which permitted mass production and high thread quality -
Edmund Cartwright and his power loom
At first a clergyman, the cotton mills of Cromford Derbyshire caught his eye, helping him create the power loom -
Nicolas LeBlanc and the Leblanc Process
An influential French chemist and surgeon who made the Leblanc process (of making alkali soda from salt) -
Eli Whitney and his cotton gin
Eli Whitney was a US born inventor who created the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds from cotton -
Robert Fulton and his steam boat
Robert Fulton started out as a painter, but eventually made designs for a submarine and created the steamboat -
David Ricardo and his Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock
A wealthy stock broker that invented the idea of monetarism in one of his books -
Karl Marx and his Communist Manifesto
A Prussian born philosopher and economist who invented Communism through his book Communist Manifesto
