timeline

  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull created the seed drill. The seed drill is a device used in agricultural areas, it sows seeds for crops and positions them, putting the seeds into the soil and putting it down at a certain depth. Very helpful for a place that would do a lot of farming.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
    Thomas Newcomen was a person who created the Atmospheric engine also known as the fire engine. The cylinder of the atmospheric engine would be filled with steam because of the boiler and then cold water would be put into the cylinder to create the steam into water and create a vacuum
  • John Roebuck

    John Roebuck
    John Roebuck created leaden condensing chambers. was used to produce sulfuric acids in large quantities
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    Adam Smith created an Inquiry into the Nature and causes of the wealth of nations. is the departure for all economic thought
  • Samuel Crompton

    Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton creates the spinning mule. The spinning mule is a, tool used to spin cotton and other fibres. This was a good invention because, it increased the amount of cotton that can be spun at any one time.
  • Jeremy Bentham

    Jeremy Bentham
    Jeremy Bentham created a prison system called the panopticon. The prison system is basically an institutional inbuilt system of control.
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright
    Edmund Cartwright created the power loom. used to comb wool mainly used to weave cloth and tapestry.
  • Nicolas LeBlanc

    Nicolas LeBlanc
    Nicolas LeBlanc made soda ash (sodium carbonate) it is used to manufacture soaps, detergents, soaps, and paper.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney creates the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin separates cotton from its seeds. Making the over process of manual cotton separation much easier.
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton
    Robert Fulton created the first steamboat. the steamboat is a transportation device used to travel across the sea, but in a mechanical way so it would be run by gas and have engines.
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson
    George Stephenson creates the first ever steam locomotive. it is used to transport heavy items by the use of steam
  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field
    Cyrus field is a person who created the first ever transatlantic cable to cross the Atlantic ocean. Is used to communicate with people like telephones.