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James Watt Improving steam Engine
He invented the Watt steam engine, which converted steam back to water. -
Adam Smith "Father of Economics"
"National Galleries of Scotland. The Industrail Revolution radically transformed the economic structure of the 19th century British society. The work of Adam Smith heavily influenced economic thought throughout the Victorian Era. -
Jethro Tull Revolutionized Farming
He profected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1700 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows. -
Eli Whitney Inventor
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gen in 1765, a machine that revolutionized the the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber -
Richard Arkwright inventor
Richard Arkwright patented the Spinning Frame, which also became known as the water-frame. -
Samuel slater "Father of the Industrial Revolution"
Samuel Slater began the American Industrial Revolution when he constructed the first successful textile mill in Pawtucket in 1793. -
Richard Trevithick engineer
British mechanical engineer and inventor who successfully harnessed high-pressure steam and constructed the world first steam railway locomotive -
Luddite Attacks
The Luddites were 19th-century English textile workers (or self employed weavers) who primarily began there movement between 1811 to 1816 to to protest against newly developed technologies: -
The Sadler Report
The Sadler report- more correctly the report of the select committee on factory children's labor (Parliamentary Papers 1831-32, volume XV): usually referred to at the time as "the report of Mr. Sadler's committee. -
Samuel Morse
He was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. he was a co-developer of the Morse Code, and helped to develop the commercial use of the telegraphy. -
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf, in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. -
Karl Marx
Karl Marx began exploring sociopolitical theories at university among the Young Hegelian. In 1848, he published the The Communist Manifesto with Friedrick Engles and was exiled to London, where he wrote the first volume of Ada's Kapital. -
The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition in 1851 was the first international exhibition of manufactured products. It was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert, and held in a purpose-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. -
Henry Bessemer
Was a prominent British engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856, which later led to the invention of Bessemer converter. -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Australian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue. Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, which is now known as the Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. -
Dmitre Mendeleyv
He was a Russian chemist and inventor. he formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long lasting practical light bulb -
Marie and Pierre Curie
Pierre and Marie Curie are best known for their pioneering work in the study of radioactivity, which led to their discovery in 1898 of the elements radium and polonium. Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 7, 1867, d. July 3, 1934, spent many impoverished years as a teacher and governess before she joined her sister Bronia in Paris in order to study mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne, earning degrees in both subjects in 1893 and 1894. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi ( 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an Americna industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903. -
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. they made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903 -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917. -
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