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Jethro Tull
ethro Tull's mechanical (seed) sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows. -
John Kay
was the inventor of the flying shuttle, this was a key contributiion of the Revolution. His invention accelerated weaving. Kay called his invention a "wheeled shuttle" -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny, automating weaving the warp (in the weaving of cloth). He was a British inventor -
Richard Arkwright
Arkwright's "water" (powered) frame automates the weft. The water-frame, a machine that produced a strong twist for warps, substituting wooden and metal cylinders for human fingers. This made possible inexpensive yarns to manufacture cheap calicoes, on which the subsequent great expansion of the cotton industry was based.. -
James Watt
Watt invents an improved steam engine. a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. -
Edmund Cartwright
Cartwright builds a power loom. Power loom addressed the problem of mechanical weaving. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Cotton Gin was a device to clean raw cotton. Device removed seeds from cotton. Break through in history because it reduced the amount of work to do this task. -
John Dalton
English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness. The Atomic Theory, The Law of Partial Pressures, and The Law of Stoichiometry -
Richard Trevithick
an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. -
Robert Fulton
an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history.[1] He is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the British Navy. [2] -
Gregor Mendel
Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Father of Genetics -
Charles Darwin
He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.[ -
Dimitri Mendeleev
was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Using the table, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered. -
Alexander Graham Bell
patents the telephone. was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone -
Thomas Edison
invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
Joseph Lister
was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds. ‘Father of Antiseptic Surgery’. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector. research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first US patent for the telephone in 1876. -
Louis Pasteur
French Chemist, remembered for breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. Created the first vaccine for Rabies and Anthrax. -
Sigmund Freud
was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. develop theories about the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression, and established the field of verbal psychotherapy. Father of Psychology. -
Guglieomo Marconi
Marconi patents wireless telegraph. Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. -
Wright Brothers
invent the first gas motored and manned airplane. Orville and Wilbur. inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, -
Henry Ford
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Introduced the Model T car. -
Samuel Slater/ Moses Brown
Samuel Slater had built carding, drawing, and roving machines, and two seventy-two spindled spinning frames. A water-wheel taken from an old mill furnished the power. Moses Brown, New England abolitionist and industrialist, who funded the design and construction of some of the first factory houses for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, including Slater Mill -
Francis Cabot Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell spied on the new British textile industry. Paul Moody to help him recreate and develop what he had seen. -
William Cockerill
British entrepreneur who created a textile machine manufacturing business in Verviers and Liege, Belgium. He was instrumental in founding the industrial spinning industry in continental Europe.
