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Abraham Darby
Was an English man who developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fueled by coke rather than charcoal. -
John Roebuck
Was an English inventor and industrialist, he is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid. -
James Watt
Was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved Newcomen's steam engine with his own engine. -
James Hargreaves
Was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who invented the spinning jenny, it transformed the textile industry by speeding up production. -
Adam Smith
Was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author, key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, he was called "The Father of Economics" and "The Father of Capitalism." -
Samuel Crompton
Was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry, he invented the spinning mule, the machine spun textile fibers into yarn using an intermittent process, -
Henry Cort
Was an English iron master, he began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. -
John Wesley
Was an English cleric who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England, known as Methodism. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
Was a French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt, which was one of the most important chemical processes of the Industrial Revolution. -
Eli Whitney
Was an American inventor, best known for inventing the cotton gin, this shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. -
David Ricardo
Was an English economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and James Mill. -
Cyrus Field
Was an American businessman and financier, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
