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John Wesley
he founder of Methodism. One of England's greatest spiritual leaders, he played a major role in the revival of religion in 18th-century English life. -
Abraham Darby
he produced marketable iron in a coke-fired furnace -
John Kay
John Kay created the flying shuttle.An important step toward automatic weaving. One person could operate a shuttle across a very wide loom, which greatly increased the rate of cloth production. -
Richard Arkwright
Arkwright patented the spinning frame, a machine which produced twisted threads. Arkwright also helped develop and build the first spinning machine that was able to produce cotton thread. -
Robert Owen
Owen borrowed £100 from his brother William, so as to enter into a partnership to make spinning mules, a new invention for spinning cotton thread. -
David Ricardo
Best known for his theory on wages and profit, labor theory of value, theory of comparative advantage, and theory of rents. -
Adam Smith
An economist and philosopher who wrote what is considered the "bible of capitalism," The Wealth of Nations, in which he details the first system of political economy. -
Edmund Cartwright
The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund. This machine was used to arrange and lay parallel by length the fibers of wool. The machine was important in the mechanization of the textile industry. -
Eli Whitney
The cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.It quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds. -
Elias Howe
first ever lockstitch sewing machine in the world.His invention helped the mass production of sewing machines and clothing. That in turn revolutionized the sewing industry and freed women from some of the drudgery of daily life at the time. -
Karl Marx
Marx developed and published anti-capitalist literature that details how workers are inherently exploited and oppressed under the capitalist system.Marx and fellow German thinker Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto,” which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus created the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Obtaining the aid of British and American naval ships.
