Industrial Revolution Inventors

  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen

    Creates first steam engine to remove water from coal mines.
  • Jehtro Tull

    Jehtro Tull

    Perfects the first horse drawn seed drill to ease farm work
  • John Roebuck

    John Roebuck

    Begins perfecting the construction and industrializing of Sulphuroic acid
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    Patents plans for a more efficient steam engine than Roebuck
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves

    Recieves patent for the "spinning Jenny" to increase wool output
  • John Kay

    John Kay

    Recieves patent for the "flying shuttle" to further the use of thread in factories
  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort

    Creates more effective mthod for producing iron bars and patens the "puddling process"
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright

    Recieves patent for the first "power wheel"
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    Invents the cotton gin to begin mass producing cotton
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson

    Constructed first locomotive designed for carrying coal
  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe

    Patents plans for the first sewing machine to fasten the creation of cloth
  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field

    Lays first telegraph cable across atlantic ocean sending a message from the queen of england to the U.S. President