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Abraham Darby
Abraham Darby founded the Bristol Iron Company and was the first to smelt iron with coke. -
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen invented the Newcomen Atmospheric Engine. The engine was first used to pump water out of mines but was also the first steam engine ever created. -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny. The Spinning Jenny was a machine used to spin wool or cotton. -
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull invented the Seed Drill, a drill used sow the seeds at equal distance and proper depth. -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton invented the Spinning Mule, a Spindle that in many ways out performed James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny. -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort invented the Puddling Process. This process was a way of refining iron ore into pure iron. -
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, a loom that could be used more efficiently than others of its time. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was the principle inventor of the railroad locomotive. He along with others helped to pave the way for others in the rail road industry and was even known as the Father of the Railroad. -
David Ricardo
David Ricardo wrote the Iron Law of Wages which states that wages will always in the long run go to minimum wage or enough to support the worker. -
Elias Howe
Elias Howe invented the lock stitch sewing machine. This sewing machine makes the "lockstitch", the most basic and most commonly used stitch. -
Karl Marx
Karl Marx along with Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto, a political pamphlet explaining Marx and Friedrich's political ideals. -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus Field along with other established the Atlantic Telegraph Company and later laid the first telegraph cable along the Atlantic Ocean.
