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Jethro Tull
An English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire that helped with the agricultural revolution. He perfected the seed drill that economically placed the seeds in perfect rows, this was powered by horses. Jethro invented the seed drill in the 1700s -
Abraham Darby
Invented a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fulled by coke rather than charcoal. He was born into an English Quaker family that played a big role in the industrial revolution. -
James Watt
James Watt was an mechanical engineer and an inventor who helped improve the steam engine technology that drove the industrial revolution. He also invented the photocopier and horsepower. -
John Kay
Inventor of the flying shuttle, that was a very big contribution to the industrial revolution. He sometimes is mixed up with creating the spinning frame. -
Adam Smith
Scottish political economist and philosopher, he became famous from his book called the wealth of nations. He was the son of the comptroller of the customs at Kirkcaldy. -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule, which was a device for spinning cotton and other fibers. They were used from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, and it was powered by mules . -
Henry Cort
An English iron master that began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems.Then in 1782 he came up with and patented the puddling process for refining iron ore. -
Eli Whitney
An american inventor know for inventing the cotton gin. This invention was widely know because it quickly and easily separated the cotton from its seeds. It was created in 1793 but then later patented in 1794. -
David Ricardo
A British economist best known for his theory on wages and profit with money, and theory of rents,. He and other economist simultaneously and individually discovered the law of diminishing marginal returns. -
Robert Owen
He was born on May 14th 1771 at Newtown, Montgomeryshire. This man was very successful in the cotton business then, in 1800, he invented the Utopian society based on his cotton mills at New Lanark that we all live in today. -
Alessandro Volta
Was an electrical scientist, a physicist and a chemist. He was most famous for his invention the electrical battery, which people then called the "voltalic pile" in 1800. -
Robert Fulton
He was an american inventor and engineer who invented the steamboat, witch was a steam powered boat that used steam to work the motor. He was the first to do this.
