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Combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of drawing water from a tin mine. -
developed and built his first steel plow, although whether or not Deere was the first to invent the steel plow is a matter of controversy.
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Whitney's greatest contribution to American industry was the development and implementation of the manufacturing system and assembly line. He was the first to use it in the production of muskets for the U.S. government. -
In 1769 it was Watt who patented the steam engine as such. That is why some consider Watt to be the actual inventor of the steam engine. With his engine, Watt introduced substantial improvements to previous engines that used steam power very poorly. -
Plan for the spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves, 1770. This was a very important invention because it meant that eight threads could be spun at a time -
He modified Arkwright's hydraulic spinning machine with elements of Hargreaves' jenny spinning machine, from which emerged the spinning machine known as the mule-jenny (1779), which played a leading role in the mechanization of the English and European textile industry. -
an English entrepreneur and metallurgical inventor. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron and converting it from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. -
Inspired by what he saw, he designed a power loom that was faster and more efficient than existing ones. The machine was patented in 1785, although design flaws made it virtually unusable. -
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. -
It was a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert, a confectioner by trade, who around 1795 devised a preservation process that was as simple as it was effective. It consisted in placing food in a hermetically sealed glass jar and boiling it for a certain period of time. -
Richard Trevithick was an English inventor and engineer and machine builder, who developed the first working steam locomotive. -
was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, known for developing the first steamboat, which became a commercial success, and for pioneering the development of the first submarines around 1800. -
was an Anglo Irish preacher and Bible teacher and a very influential figure among the early Plymouth Brethren. He is considered the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. -
The riots that shook the wool and cotton industries were known as the "Luddite riots". -
was a British mechanical engineer and civil engineer who built the world's first public railway line to use steam locomotives and the first passenger-carrying railway line to use steam locomotives. -
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and engineer who immigrated to the United States and was the creator of the "teletrofono", later baptized as "telephone", among other technical innovations. -
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who, along with his associate Alfred Vail, invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States, the first of its kind. -
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British inventor of French descent, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for producing steel in the 19th century, being used for almost one hundred years. -
first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system. -
was a French engineer, builder, in 1858, of the first industrial refrigerating machine. In 1867 Tellier also built the so-called "ammonia horse", which was an ammonia engine capable of pulling a tractor. -
Alexander Graham Bell was a British scientist, inventor, speech therapist, naturalized American. He contributed to the development of telecommunications. -
was an American inventor, scientist and entrepreneur. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording and motion pictures. These inventions included the phonograph. The electric light bulb. The Edison effect. -
was a German engineer and inventor, known for having created the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886 along with his wife, this was considered the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. -
were two aviators, engineers, inventors and pioneers of aviation, generally named together, and recognized worldwide as the inventors