Industrial Revolution Inventors/ Inventions/ Contribution

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  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull
    Seed Drill: He invented a horse drawn seed drill that sowed the seeds into neat rows.
  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby
    Coalbrookdale Furnace: developed a meathod of producing pig iron in a blasting furnace fulled with coke and not charcol.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
    Newcomen atmospheric engine: the first practical steam engine for pumping water.
  • John Kay

    John Kay
    Flying Shuttle: The first "Spinning Frame".
  • John Roebuck

    John Roebuck
    Chemisist: Manufactured Sulfuric Acid and Iron
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright
    Power loom: used to manufacture fabrics quicker than man can.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Cotton Gin- could produce cotton faster than people.
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta
    Voltiac Pile: the first eletrical battery.
    Discovered Methane
  • David Richardo

    David Richardo
    The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes: A publication made on the use of metallic currency.
  • Goerge Stephenson

    Goerge Stephenson
    first inter- city railway: for steam locomotives, a railway in the city.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    philosophy known as "dialectical materialism", manuscripts: communism was th ultimate form of society.
  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field
    Library Globe: the telegraph may be able to span the atlantic ocean.