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Jethro Tull
Invented the seed drill -The seed drill created the fuel that kept the industrial revolution running. This changed society because it gave them more food, clothes and supplies and gave people the supplies to begin the industrial revolution. -
Abraham Darby
Sand casting - Relatively inexpensive production costs, especially in low-volume runs.
The ability to fabricate large components.
A capacity for casting both ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
A low cost for post-casting tooling. -
John Kay
Invented flying shuttle - The flying shuttle was used with the traditional handloom and helped improve weaving efficiency and reduced labor needs because it could be operated with only one operator. Weaving was the process of creating cloth out of many different strands of thread -
James Watt
Invented Photocopier - The photocopier has helped to automate the process of document reproduction. The processes used to reproduce documents in the pre-xerographic times required expensive supplies. Also, xerography brought with it the ability to use untreated office paper, which lowered total document reproduction costs. -
Samuel Crompton
Spinning Mule - The application of the mule to industry massively increased the amount of cotton yarn manufacturers could produce, which in turn increased demand for raw cotton to supply the mills. -
Jeremy Bentham
founder of modern utilitarianism - Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness). -
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin - After the invention of the cotton gin, the yield of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800, cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor. -
Alessandro Volta
Electric battery - It made many industrialized machines possible to be used like the electric start on a car. It also made it so that instead of plugging a plug to a power outlet, but you can use it anywhere with this awesome type of portable energy. Batteries made energy way more portable. -
David Ricardo
discovered the law of diminishing marginal returns. - The law of diminishing returns is significant because it is part of the basis for economists' expectations that a firm's short-run marginal cost curves will slope upward as the number of units of output increases. -
Karl Marx
published “The Communist Manifesto” - It formed the basis for the modern communist movement as we know it, arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism. The Manifesto was written at a time of unprecedented industrial and social change. -
Cyrus Field
conceived the idea of the telegraph cable & secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean - Cables have been used to communicate between the U.S. and Europe for more than a century. The original transatlantic cable was a relatively simple telegraph cable, but laying it across the ocean floor was an immense undertaking. The earliest transatlantic cable. -
John Wesley
Celluloid - Celluloid was easily molded and shaped, and it was first widely used as an ivory replacement. The main use was in movie and photography film industries, which used only celluloid film stock prior to the adoption of acetate safety films in the 1950s.