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He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1700 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and he later developed a horse-drawn hoe. -
Anglican clergyman, evangelist, and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. -
He was a British economist, philosopher, and author born in Scotland, as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy, and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ''The Father of Economics'' or ''The Father of Capitalism''. -
Credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat -
developed the first commercially practical condensing steam engine -
British inventor of the spinning mule, which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn. -
was a French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt. -
was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. -
Credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat. -
David Ricardo developed the classical theory of comparative advantage in 1817 to explain why countries engage in international trade even when one country's workers are more efficient at producing every single good than workers in other countries. -
The Atlantic Telegraph was invented to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic -
He was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known for efforts to improve factory working conditions for his workers and promote experimental socialistic communities. He had also invented the ratchet wrench