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Darby combined the existing technologies of casting iron with casting brass that produced goods of a greater intricacy.
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John Kay was the son of a wool manufacturer in Bury, Lancashire. He was just a young man when he became the manager of one of his father's mills. Kay developed skills as a machinist and engineer. He made many improvements to the machines in the mill.
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About 1764 Hargreaves is said to have conceived the idea for his hand-powered multiple spinning machine.
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Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows.
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David Ricardo was one of those rare people who achieved both tremendous success and lasting fame.
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Robert Owen was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
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n 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin.
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George Stephenson was born on 9 June 1781 near Newcastle-upon. His father was a coal miner were he occasionally worked too.
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As a university student, Karl Marx (1818-1883) joined a movement known as the Young Hegelians, who strongly criticized the political and cultural establishments of the day.
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In 1854 Field began the quest to lay a telegraphic cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
