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Abraham Darby
He developed the coke burning blast furnace that made it possible to produce commercial grade iron cost-effectively. His work helped launch the Industrial Revolution and contributed to the development of the iron and steel industries. -
John Wesley
He was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day. -
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. In 1775 his interest in electricity led him to improve the electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity. He discovered and isolated methane gas in 1776. Three years later he was appointed to the chair of physics at the University of Pavia. -
James Watt
He invented the watt steam engine. It was also called the Boulton. It was an early steam engine and was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. He developed the design sporadically with support from Matthew Boulton. It separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. Eventually he adapted his engine to produce rotary motion, greatly broadening its use beyond pumping water. -
Robert Owen
A Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known for efforts to improve factory working conditions for his workers and promote experimental socialistic communities. His New Lanark mills in Lanarkshire, Scotland, with their social and industrial welfare programs, became a place of pilgrimage for statesmen and social reformers. -
Samuel Crompton
British inventor of the spinning mule, which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn. He named it because of a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in the same way that mule is the product of crossbreeding a female horse with a male donkey, they call a female donkey a jenny. Crompton built his mule from wood. -
Edmund Cartwright
He was an english inventor. He created the wool combing machine. A method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. The fibres in the top it produces have been straightened and lie parallel to each other. When combing wool, the discarded short fibres are called noils, and are ground up into shoddy. -
Eli Whitney
He invented the cotton gin. A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. For his work, he is credited as a pioneer of American manufacturing -
David Ricardo
English economist who gave systematized, classical form to the rising science of economics in the 19th century. His laissez-faire doctrines were typified in his Iron Law of Wages, which stated that all attempts to improve the real income of workers were futile and that wages perforce remained near the subsistence level. best known for his theory on wages and profit, labor theory of value, theory of comparative advantage, and theory of rents. -
Karl Marx
He was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. He published Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in 1848, commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement’s most important book, Das Kapital. -
Cyrus Field
An American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. He was one of the founders in 1854 of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, formed to carry out the project. In 1877 he bought a controlling interest in the New York Elevated Railroad Company and for the next three years served as its president. -
Elias Howe
He invented the sewing machine. Its made for stitching material such as cloth or leather, usually having a needle and shuttle to carry thread and powered by treadle, waterpower, or electricity. It was the first widely distributed mechanical home appliance and has been an important industrial machine.
