webers class inventors and inventions

  • Jethro Tull

    Inventor of the seed drill which sowed the seeds in neat rows.
  • Abraham Darby

    Inventor of the blast furnace.
  • Thomas Newcome

    Thomas Newcome
    The inventor of the Newcomen atmospheric engine
  • John Roebuck

    Invented the lead chamber process of manufacturing sulfuric acid and a process for producing malleable iron.
  • Samuel Crompton

    Samuel Crompton
    Inventor of the spinning mule which was a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers.
  • Edmundm Cartwright

    Edmundm Cartwright
    The Inventor of the power loom
  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort
    Invented the puddling process which was a method of converting pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and frequent stirring in a furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances
  • Nicolas Leblanc

    Inventor of the process for transforming sodium chloride (NaCL, or common salt) into soda ash.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
  • George Stephenson

    Inventor of the steam locomotive
  • Elise Howe

    Inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
  • Cyrus Field

    Created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in.