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Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull created the seed drill in 1701. The seed drill helped revolutionize farming. -
Seed Drill
A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. -
Sand Casting
Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material. The term "sand casting" can also refer to an object produced via the sand casting process. Sand castings are produced in specialized factories called foundries.This was created by Abraham Darby. -
Abraham Darby
Abraham Darby was the first in what would become a distinguished dynasty of iron masters and had pioneered an innovative method of iron smelting. Using coke made from local coal to fuel furnaces rather than charcoal, Darby's discovery made the mass production of cast iron economically viable. -
John Kay
He was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. -
Flying Shuttle
The flying shuttle was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. -
Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny was an engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. Able to be operated by unskilled workers, it was a key development in the industrialisation of weaving, as it could spin many spindles at a time, beginning with eight at a time and increasing to eighty as the technology improved.
The weaving of cloth was now no longer centred in the homes of textile workers, moving from a ‘cottage industry’ to industrial manufacture. -
James Hargreaves
About 1764 Hargreaves is said to have conceived the idea for his hand-powered multiple spinning machine when he observed a spinning wheel that had been accidentally overturned by his young daughter Jenny. As the spindle continued to revolve in an upright rather than a horizontal position, Hargreaves reasoned that many spindles could be so turned. He constructed a machine with which one individual could spin several threads at one time. -
Eli Whitney
Person responsible for creating the cotton Gin in 1793 -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin is a machine invented to quickly and easily separate the fibers of cotton from their seeds -
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
The book concludes that land rent grows as population increases. It also presents the theory of comparative advantage, the theory that free trade between two or more countries can be mutually beneficial, even when one country has an absolute advantage over the other countries in all areas of production. -
David Ricardo
David Ricardo was a British political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. Ricardo was also a politician, and a member of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland.