Industrial Revolution

  • John Kay

    John Kay
    John Kay was an inventor and is most well known for his invention of the flying shuttle.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney is mostly known for his invention of the cottin gin. This invention helped shape the economy of the south. He also help make newly constructed muskets for the continental army.
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton
    Robert Fulton developed the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800, he was commisioned to build the first submarine. Robert was also credited for inventing the first naval torpedoes.
  • Samuel Morse

    Samuel Morse
    Samuel was apart of inventing the single-wire telegraph. And he was also a co-inventor of the Morse code. He also was an accomplished painter.
  • Henry Bessemer

    Henry Bessemer
    Sir Henry Bessemer was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman. Bessemer's name is mainly known with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. This invention from which Henry, made his first fortune was a series of six steam-powered machines for making bronze powder.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander was an eminent scientist, inventor, and engineer. And he invented the first practical telephone. He also invented in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and areonautics.
  • Gottlieb Daimler

    Gottlieb Daimler
    Gottlieb invented the first high-speed petrol engine and the first four wheel automoblile. In 1885 he and his partner designed a precursor of the modern gasoline engine which they fitted to a two-wheeler, which made the first interal combusion motorcycle.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas was an American inventor and businessman. He invented the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera, and the long-lasting practical light bulb. He was also credited for the creation of the first reseach labratory.
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist,. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electrical supply system.
  • Guglielmo Marconi

    Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor. He was known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He was the founder of the The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Britain.