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Seed Drill
Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He was educated for the legal profession, but appears not to have taken a degree. In his travels, Tull found himself seeking more knowledge of agriculture. He ended up becoming a wealthy farmer who invented the seed drill. This new machinery made planting grain more efficient. -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves was born and bread in Oswaldtwistle, England in 1720, he received no formal education and never had the ability to learn how to read or write. James Hargreaves however was a weaver and carpenter who revolutionized the spinning process with a machine he called the Spinning Jenny. This machine span several threads at once. Hargreaves machine was not perfect however, because the thread it produced was still thick and prone to break when woven to cloth. -
Carbonated Water
Torbern Bergman was a swedish chemist born on 20 March 1735, the son of Barthold Bergman and Sara Hägg.He invented a way to make carbonated water from chalk by using an action of sulfuric acid. He studied carbon dioxide and, based on his thorough chemical knowledge and analytical skills, developed procedures and devices to make other forms of artificial mineral waters. -
Guillotine
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician. He proposed the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France. It was ment to be a less painful method of execution. While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became well known for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was Antoine Louis. -
Cotton Gin
American inventor Eli Whitney, and patented. It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. The gin revolutionised the cotton industry in the United States, and also led to the growth of slavery in the American South as the demand for cotton workers also rapidly increased. The invention has since been identified as a contributor to the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Steam Locomotive
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from a young age. Being the son of a mining captain, he performed poorly in school, however went on to be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport. His most well known contribution was to the development of the first high-pressure steam engine or steam locomotive. -
Punch Card
Joseph Marie Jacquard, created punch cards, that simplifies the process of creating textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelasse.The loom was controlled by a "chain of cards", a number of punched cards, put together into a continuous sequence. Multiple rows of holes were punched on each card, with one complete card corresponding to one row of the design.The Jacquard loom or mechanical loom changed the way factories worked. -
Gas Lighting
Frederick Albert Winsor was a German inventor and a pioneer of gas lighting in the UK and France. Winsor saw that it would be more efficient and profitable to make gas in large amounts, distribute it through underground pipes to several places, and sell the leftover solid "coke" as a low-quality fuel. In 1807 Winsor and hispartners went on to stage the first gas streetlighting display in London, England. Parliament finally granted Winsor the ability to form a new company for gas lighting. -
Type Writer
W.A. Burt invented the typewritter. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He was referred to as "the father of the typewritter". It produced a way for blind people to read and write. Initially typewritters were slow sellers, however in the end people saw the importance and need for them.
