industrial revolution inventors

  • Richard Arkwright

    Richard Arkwright
    invented the spinning frame wich helps create water to power
  • John Wesley

    He created an industial plastic
  • Adam Smith

    Was a scottish economist and philosopher.key factor in scottish enlightenment
  • james hargreaveas

    James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning.
  • edmund cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright FSA was an English inventor. 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 watt

    James Watt FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine
  • Robert Owen

    he was known for textile making and he was a founder of utopian socialism.
  • Eli whitney

    Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
  • jeremy bentham

    Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong
  • george stephanson

    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
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. he created the communist manifesto
  • Cyrus field

    Cyrus field
    he creted the atlantic telagraph company