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Jethero Tull
He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows. This was a notable advance over the usual practice of scattering the seeds by hand. -
Abraham Darby
Darby developed the coke burning blast furnace that made it possible to produce commercial grade iron cost-effectively. His work helped launch the Industrial Revolution and contributed to the development of the iron and steel industries.- -
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen invented the first atmospheric steam engine. It became an important method of draining water from deep mines and was therefore a vital component in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Newcomen's invention enabled mines to be drained to greater depths than had previously been economically possible and so helped provide the coal, iron and other metals that were vital to the expansion of industry.The engine can claim to be the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution. -
John Kay
Kay mounted his shuttle on wheels in a track and used paddles to shoot the shuttle from side to side when the weaver jerked a cord. Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly than two could before. -
Richard Arkwright
textile industrialist and inventor whose use of power-driven machinery and employment of a factory system of production were perhaps more important than his inventions.He became interested in spinning machinery at least by 1764, when he began construction of his first machine Arkwright’s water frame produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp. -
Eli Whitney
Cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793. The mechanization of spinning in England had created a greatly expanded market for American cotton, whose production was inhibited by the slowness of manual removal of the seeds from the raw fibre. Cotton through a set of wire teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, the fibre passing through narrow slots in an iron breastwork too small to permit passage of the seed. -
Alessandro Volta
Volta’s battery consisted of alternating disks of zinc and silver separated by paper or cloth soaked either in salt water or sodium hydroxide. A simple and reliable source of electric current that did not need to be recharged like the Leyden jar, his invention quickly led to a new wave of electrical experiments. -
Robert Fulton
Fulton invented the first successful commercial steamboat also known as the Clermont. The steamboat was used to carry passrngers between New York City and Albany. -
Samuel Crompton
Crompton invented the spinning mule.This was used to spin cotton and other fibers. The innovative machine spun textile fibers into yarn using an intermittent process that transformed the way yarn was manufactured, making the process much faster, easier and more profitable. -
Elias Howe
Howe invented the first practical sewing machine. The first sewing machine was made of wood and used a needle to do the sewing. -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. -
James Watt
In May 1765, after wrestling with the problem of improving it, he suddenly came upon a solution—the separate condenser, his first and greatest invention. Watt had realized that the loss of latent heat (the heat involved in changing the state of a substance—e.g., solid or liquid) was the worst defect of the Newcomen engine and that therefore condensation must be effected in a chamber distinct from the cylinder but connected to it.
