History of investors

  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull

    was an English agricultural pioneer who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill.
  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby

    Developed the coke burning blast furnace
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen

    Was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Was a Scottish economist most remembered for his masterpiece, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."
  • John Kay

    John Kay

    Invented the flying shuttle—an improvement to weaving looms and a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Scottish social philosopher and political economist wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright

    Was an English inventor. He invented the wool combing machine.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    Was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta

    was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who invented electric battery
  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe

    invented the first practical sewing machine.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    German thinker Friedrich Engels and Marx published “The Communist Manifesto.”
  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field

    Cyrus West Field was 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.