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Jenthro Tull
an agricultural pioneer of the inventor of the speed drill and started horse drawn farming equipment -
John Kay
John Kay invented the Flying Shuttle. On May 26,1733 he received a patent for a "new engine or machine for opening or dressing wool." the flying shuttle was thrown or passed through warp threads by hand. using the flying shuttle a weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly then two could before. -
Edmund Cartwright
He graduated from Oxford university very early and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador -
James Hargreaves
invented the spinning jenny, the first practical application machine spinning by machine until his death he worked at the mill which was proven successful. after he began to to sell machines to support his family hand spinners fearing unemployment broke into his house and destroyed all the jenny -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide -
James Watt
Jame Watt improved upon Thomas Newcomen's steam engine. As a kid he was taught for a time at home by his mother. At 17 Newcomen decided to become a mathematical-instrument maker. He first went to glasgow where one of his mother relatives taught at the university, then in 1755 he found a mater to trail him. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
Nick was a chemist and a french surgeon who found out how to manufacturer soda ash from common salt -
Eli Whitney
Eli was an American inventor best know for inventing the cotton gin.in May 1789 he entered Yale college where he learned more concepts and experiments in science -
Richard Arkwright
an inventor who used power-driven machinery and employment the create wigs. Arkwright traveled widely in great Britain. He may have borrowed other people ideas for the machine but he was able to build and make them work successfully. -
Cyrus Fields
businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858 -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements
