Industrial Revolution Inventors/Inventions/Contrubutions

  • Jethro Tull

    He invented the thing called the seed drill. The seed drill is a machine used by farmers to be a horse drawn hoe and to increase ploughing ability.
  • Abraham Darby

    He created a new way of extracting metal iron ore fronm rocks and turning it into every day objects. This was called smelting. Abraham used coal to smelt iron, seperate it from the rock.
  • John Kay

    John Kay was the man who invented the flying shuttle which enabled weavers to weave textiles faster then they would have without it.
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny which facilitated the textile industrys picked cotton. James was a carpenter and a weaver.
  • James Watt

    JAmes watt was considered to be the inventer of the steam engine. It took coal to burn to make fire which in return created steam which powered a wheel and hence made the engine work.
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwrite invented the power loom and the power loom was created to do things like combining cloth to make thread and things like that.
  • Robert Fulron

    Robert Fulton invented the first ever steam powered boat. This went at an amazing rate of five miles an hour. That was pretty good for the transportations average speed.
  • Samual Crompton

    Samual Crompton invented the spinning mule which inproved the textile industry by combining the spinning jenny and Arkwrite power loom to make textiles faster and more durrable.
  • Eli Whitney

    He invented the Cotton Gin which picked cotton clean at a much faster rate then the slaves that the plantations had doing the job. He also created interchangable parts.
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta invented the battery. This awesome device allows peole to harness electricity to power objects up do it safly. He was an extrodinat of tallent. He was an inventer with a lot of skill and he was cool.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx was a so called father of the sociological thinking. He was also responsable for beleiving in communism as the way to live in life. He was a sociologist none the less.
  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. Everybody knows what a sewing machine is. It knitts cloths and fabrics together to make a strong bond. This allows a lot of small peices to be added onto eachother to make clothing and things of that sort.