Inventors and Inventions

  • Abraham Darby and coke smelting

    Abraham Darby and coke smelting
    Coke smelting is what he best known for
  • John Kay

    John Kay
    John Kay, (born July 16, 1704, near Bury, Lancashire, England invented the fling shuttle. It was an automatic weaver of loom.
  • James Hargreaves and The spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves and The spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. The spinning Jenny helped advancement of production the textile industry.
  • Richard Arkwright and The Spinning Water Wheel

    Richard Arkwright and The Spinning Water Wheel
    Textile industrialist English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.He is credited with the spinning water frame. Was a frame that was used to spin yarn by water.
  • James Watt and the steam engine

    James Watt and the steam engine
    James Watt was a scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. He is Best known for his improvements to the steam engine
  • Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule

    Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule
    Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule. The spinning mule was a hybrid of the water wheel and the spinning Jenny
  • Edmund Cartwright and the power loom

    Edmund Cartwright and the power loom
    Edmund Cartwright was an english inventor. He graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom.
  • Nicolas LeBlanc and Soda Ash

    Nicolas LeBlanc and Soda Ash
    Nicolas Leblanc was a French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt.
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta
    Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery. It was a system of storing energy
  • George Stephenson and the locomotive

    George Stephenson and the locomotive
    George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways". He made the steam locomotive. The locomotive was " a rail vehicle that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam." Britannica
  • David Ricardo and The Economic Theory

    David Ricardo and The Economic Theory
    David Ricardo was an economist who invent the economic theory, based on wages and profit, the labor theory of value, the theory of comparative advantage, and the theory of rents. After retiring he would purchased his seat in parliament
  • Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism

    Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism
    Jeremy Bentham is an English philosopher who created the utilitarianism, or the principal of unity