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Jethro Tull
Seed Drill - Fueling the British Agricultural Revolution, the seed drill would sow seeds in neat rows using horse power. -
Abraham Darby
Sand Casting Iron Pots - was able to provide mine owners with iron wheels, steam engine cylinders and machinery. -
Thomas Newcomen
Newcomen Atmospheric Engine - the first fuel-burning engine, using steam condensed into a cylinder to push a piston with a type of vacuum. -
Richard Arkwright
Spinning Frame - A type of machine which produced twisted threads using wooden and metal cylinders rather than human fingers. -
John Roebuck
The Steam Engine - The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force is transformed, by a connecting rod and flywheel, into rotational force for work. -
Samuel Crompton
Spinning Mule - permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn. -
Henry Cort
Converting Pig Iron into Wrought Iron - converted pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal. It was the first method that allowed quality wrought iron to be produced on a large scale. -
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin - One of the key events in the Industrial Revolution, the cotton gin easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds; this enabled much higher productivity. -
Alessandro Volta
Battery - Discovered that a certain fluid generating a continuous flow of electrical power when used as a conductor creates a battery. -
David Ricardo
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns - Discovered that, in an economy, adding an additional factor of production will actually result in smaller increases in output. -
Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto - a book that formed the basis of the communist movement; when Capitalism falls, socialism/communism will rise from its ashes. -
Cyrus West Field
Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Field conceived the idea for a Telegraph Cable crossed the Atlantic Ocean in order to communicate across the water by Telegraph.
