Important People of The Industrial And Agricultural Revolutions

Jathro Toll

He invented the seed drill in 1701 which planted seeds a certain distance apart, allowing for crops yields to be greater.

Robert Backwell

He only allowed his strongest sheep to breed, and other farmer followed his lead, resulting in the average weight of a sheep from being 18 pounds in 1700 to 50 pounds in 1786.

John Kaye

He invented the flying shuttle, which doubled the work a weaver could do in a day.

James Hargreaves

He invented the spinning jenny which allowed one spinner to work 18 threads at a time

Richard Arkwright

He invented the water frame in 1769 which used water power from streams to power the spinning wheel.

Samuel Crompton

In 1779, he combined the water frame and the spinning jenny to create the spinning mule.

Edmund Cartwright

He invented the power loom in 1787.

Eli Whitney

He invented the cotton gin in 1793 which sped up the process of remove seed from cotton, causes cotton production to rise from 1.5 million pounds in 1790 to 85 million in 1810.

James Watt

In 1769 he figured out a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently.

Mathew Boton

He was the entrepreneur that joined Watt, paying his salary and encouraging him to improve the stem engine.

Robert Fulton

Ordered a steam engine from Bolton, which he used to power a boat in 1807, which led to the increase in the amount of canals and human-made waterways, reducing transportation costs.

John McAdam

Improved roadways by using a layer of larger stones topped with crushed rock, allowing the roads to drain.

George Stephenson

He was one of the first railway engineers; in 1821 he began work on the first railway line that would be 27 miles long and opened in 1825 using four locomotives that he designed and built.

Luddites

People that were against the industrial revolution that attacked factories and smashed machines.

Samuel Slaton

Worker and inventor from Britain that moved to the US build a spinning machine from memory.

Cobot Lowell

He and four other investors revolutionized the textile industry by mechanizing every stage in the manufacturing of cloth.

Alexander Gram Bell

He invented the telephone.

Thomas Edison

He invented the lightbulb; he also owned and operated a research facility in Menlo Park that led to a lot of new inventions.

John D. Rockefeller

He had vertical and horizontal integration of the oil industry.

Canigie

Led steel company that would buy up competitors and had horizontal and vertical integration

Thomas Malfus

In 1798, he published an essay about population trends and the impact of this on the world, and was worried that the population would grow faster than the food supply; he said that wars and epidemics were needed to keep the population down.

Ricardo

Published his ideas about the relationship between the availability of workers and resources; he said if there are a lot of workers or lot of resources, those things would be cheap. He also believed there would always be a permeant underclass that was poor.