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Jethro Tull - innovative Englishman who invented a seed "drill" or planter that enabled farmers to plant more efficiently

Eli Whitney - American whose invention of the cotton gin enabled cotton to become America's chief cash crop Henry Bessemer - Englishman who developed the process for making steel that enhanced the Industrial Revolution

James Watt - Scottish inventor who designed the first practical practical and efficient steam engine

Robert Fulton - American inventor who made steam powered engines on ships commercially profitable

Orville & Wilbur Wright - American inventors who conducted the first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC

Henry Ford - American inventor who developed the assembly line process to mass produce the Model T automobile

William Wiberforce- member of Parliament, after his conversion to Christianity he made a lifelong commitment to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire

Benjamin Disraeli - as the Tory Party Prime Minister of Britain, he led the passage of the Reform Bill of 1867 and acquired the Suez Canal for Great Britain

William Gladstone - as the Liberal Party Prime Minister of Britain, he instituted reforms that included a single national court system, voting by secret ballot and giving suffrage to rural communities

Adam Smith - British Economist who opposed mercantilism and wrote the book Wealth of Nations

Robert Owen - Scottish textile manufacturer and proponent of utopian socialism, he established a community called New Harmony in Indiana

Karl Marx - German socialist philosopher, living in exile in Britain he wrote Das Kapital

Friedrich Engels - co-produced the Communist Manifesto in which he felt the goal of history was for workers to unite to oppose capitalism

George Mueller - English minister noted for the establishment of orphanages to care for children in need of support William Booth - founder of the Salvation Army, a ministry that continues to address the needs of the urban poor

Dwight L. Moody - one of the leading evangelists of the late 19th Century, his revivals in Britain and the USA led many souls to Christ, he founded the a Bible Institute to prepare people for urban ministry

Charles Darwin - English scientist who laid the basis for the theory of biological evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species Marie Curie - working with her husband Pierre, found two new elements in a type of uranium called pitchblende

Albert Einstein - German/Jewish physicists, was the greatest scientist of the early 20th Century, he showed the relationship between matter and energy (E-mc?) and developed the theory of relativity

Charles Dickens - English novelist and social critic, writing in the genre of realism, he is noted for his classic work Hard Times Samuel Clemens -American writer, known as Mark Twain, he used humor to portray man as engaged in a hopeless struggle against impersonal forces •

Leo Tolstoy - Great Russian author who wrote realistically about the hardships in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars Vincent van Gogh - Dutch painter who rejected the impressionism style, his works tried to capture intense emotions