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John Wesley
Was a traveling minister who first introduced Methodism. -
Thomas Newcomen
He was an English inventor who created the first steamboat engine in 1712 and the the atmospheric engine. -
James Watt
He created the photo copier, the watt steam engine for boats and the watts linkage, all which helped economy in the colonies. -
Jeremy Bentham
Was an English philosopher who studied moral philosophy. He is most famous for his principle of utiliarism which evaluates actions based on their consequences. -
Robert Fulton
He was an american engineer who was widely credited with creating the steam boat called the The Northern River steamboat. -
Richard Arkwright
He created both the water frame and the spinning frame which both where machines that spun out cotton to make it into threads and yarn. -
Robert Owen
He was one of the first people to introduce an utopian socialism and then later on got involved in the cotton industry and opened cotton mills. -
Samuel Crompton
He was a pioneer on the spinning industry who created the spinning mule which spun cloth and other fibers. The machine was power by two mules and was more efficent than other machines. -
Edmund Cartwright
Patented the first power loom in 1785 which manufactured cloth and while still working on this he later created a wool combing machine which also helped in the manufacturing process of cloth -
Nicolas LeBlanc
He was a French chemist during the time of the French Revolution and came up with the basis of the chemical process for making soda or sodium carbonate. -
Eli Whitney
He is most well known for the creation of the cotton gin which seperated cotton from the seeds. This invention greatly helped the economy of the South. He also created interchangeable parts which allow things to be fixed and have more than 1 use. -
Karl Marx
He was a philosopher who was most well known for the ideas of communism and anticapitalism.