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John Kay/flying shuttle
John Kay was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. His invention was said to be the most revolutanry device. His invention made it easier to spin cotton -
James Hargreaves/ spinning jenny
James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning. -
Richard Arkwright/ spinning frame
spinning frame & and water frame. Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Richard Trevithick/ the steam locomotive
steam engine. -
James Watt/ watts steam engine
photocopier, watts linkage, watts steam engine. James Watt FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to -
Robert Fulton/ steam engine
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Clermont. -
Samuel Crompton/ spinning mule
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide. -
George Stephenson/ stephenson's rocket
steam locomotive, stephensons rocket, steam locomotive. George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement -
Louis Pasteur/ pasterustation
Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. -
Henry Bessemer/ steel making process
steel making process. Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one century from year 1856 to 1950. -
Thomas Edison/ light buld
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor -
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
