industrial revoltion contributors

John Gutenberg

Invented printing press

John Kay

Invented the flying shuttle

James Hargreaves

Spinning Jenny

Thomas Savery

First practical steam engine

Thomas Newcomer

Improved Savery’s engine

James Watt

Patented advanced steam engine

John McAdam

Constructed improved roads

George Stephenson

(1830) Rocket- steam locomotive

Eli Whitney

Cotton gin; standardized parts

Jethro Wood

Iron plow

James Oliver

Steel plow

Cyrus McCormick

Reaping machine

Peter Cooper

Tom Thumb (train)

Francis C Lowell

Clothing factory in in Massachusetts

Elias Howe

Sewing machine

Edwin L Drake

Drilled first oil well

Cyrus W Field

Transatlantic line from Canada to England

Alexander Bell

First telephone message on wire