Industrial Revolution Inventors/Inventions/Contributions

  • Steam Engine

    Thomas Newcomen a blacksmith from Dartmouth, England and the engine invented by him in 1712 was known as the "Atmospheric Steam Engine".
  • Methodism

    John Wesley found the first United Methodist chucrh.
  • Flying Shuffle

    In 1733, John Kay invented the flying shuttle, an improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster.
  • puddling process

    Henry Cort
  • Sulphuric acid

    John Roebuck was an English inventor and industrialist who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric acid.
  • Spinning frame

    Richard Arkwright
  • the wealth of nations

    There is a fundamental disagreement between classical and neoclassical economists about the central message of Smith's most influential work: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Neoclassical economists emphasise Smith's invisible hand, a concept mentioned in the middle of his work – Book IV, Chapter II – and classical economists believe that Smith stated his programme for promoting the "wealth of nations" in the first sentences.
  • Paddle steamer

    Robert Fulton invented the paddle steamer
  • Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
  • Sewing machine

    Elias Howe
  • Telegraph

    Cyrus Field led the Atlantic Telegraph Company to lay the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858
  • ratchet wrench

    Robert Owen revolutionized the industry by helping ease labor and use of children in labor and creating a fair employment standard in England and Britain. the ratchet wrench was a device which could be used to remove a nut with the forward