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Abraham Darby
British ironmaster who first successfully smelted iron ore with coke. -
Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Didactic, exhortative, and analytic by turns, it lays the psychological foundation on which The Wealth of Nations was later to be built. -
Richard Arkwright
Arkwright's water frame (so-called because it operated by waterpower) produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp. -
Jeremy Bentham
anonymously published A Fragment on Government. This slim volume is an offshoot of a larger critique of Blackstone that was not published until the twentieth century, and is now known as A Comment on the Commentaries -
Samuel Crompton
mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin. It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i' th' Woodwheel, from the name of the house in which he and his family now lived. -
John Wesley
Twenty-five Articles of Religion -
Edmund Cartwright
designed his first power loom in 1784 and patented it in 1785, but it proved to be valueless. In 1789, he patented another loom which served as the model for later inventors to work upon. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
manufacturing sodium carbonate -
Eli Whitney
patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Alessandro Volta
demonstration of his battery's generation of electric current before Napoleon -
George Stephenson
constructed his first locomotive, 'Blucher', for hauling coal at Killingworth Colliery near Newcastle. In 1815, he invented a safety lamp for use in coalmines, nicknamed the 'Geordie'. In 1821, Stephenson was appointed engineer for the construction of the Stockton and Darlington railway. -
Cyrus Field
an American businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
