Richard Trevithick was born on April 13, 1771, and died on April 22, 1833. He was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, a region in England known for its mining industry. Growing up, Trevithick was deeply involved in mining and engineering because his father worked in the field.
Joseph Bramah was born on April 13, 1748, and died on December 9, 1814. He was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for improving the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press.
Thomas Newcomen ( / ˈ nj uː k ʌ m ə n / ; February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who developed the atmospheric engine in 1712. He also worked as a Baptist preacher and an ironmonger. He was born in Dartmouth, Devon, England, to a family of merchants.
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. He was known as the “Father of Railways” and was admired by people in Victorian times for his hard work and desire to improve things. The rail gauge he chose, sometimes called the “Stephenson gauge,” became the basis for the standard rail track width of 4 feet 8.5 inches (1.435 meters), used by most railways worldwide.
Sir Henry Bessemer FRS (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor. His steel-making process was the most important method for making steel in the nineteenth century for nearly 100 years. He helped make Sheffield, known as the “Steel City,” a major industrial center.
Eli Whitney Jr. was born on December 8, 1765, and died on January 8, 1825. He was an American inventor best known for creating the cotton gin in 1793.
James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter, and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. He invented the spinning jenny in 1764.
Edmund Cartwright FSA (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and later invented the power loom. At the age of 19, he married Elizabeth McMac, a local woman.
Samuel Crompton was born on 3 December 1753 and died on 26 June 1827. He was an English inventor who played an important role in the spinning industry. He used ideas from James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright to create the spinning mule, a machine that changed the industry around the world.
Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a key business leader during the early Industrial Revolution. He is known for being the main person responsible for creating the spinning frame, which later became called the water frame because it used water power. He also invented and protected by law a machine called the rotary carding engine, which helped turn raw cotton into prepared cotton before it was spun into yarn.