Important People Of The Industrial Revolution
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor who went to Oxford and invented the famous power loom and a wool combing machine. The power loom was a weaving machine made by Edmund Cartwright, it used power shafts to weave. This project was a failure but was refined later on. After Edmund set up a weaving factory in Doncaster he made a the wool combing machine, what it did was lay wool and different fibers parallel before they got sent for treatment .
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was born on June 12th 1781 in Newcastle and he built the first public railway line that used steam locomotives. when he was a child George was not giving a proper education, George Stephenson was not capable of reading and writing. later on in his he went to night school when he gathered the money to learn the skills he was not thought before then became an engineer at Water Row Pit. George Stephenson was given the nickname 'Father Of The Railroad"
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy was born on December 17, 1778 in Penzance , Cornwall, England and was a chemist. He found several elements in our periodic table today including Barium, Potassium, Boron, Calcium, and Sodium. He also invented the Miners Safety lamp, why he invited it was because lighting a flame lamps put the miners at risk of being in an explosion caused by natural gasses, his invention used oil to light the lamp in an enclosed capsule.
Robert Owens
Robert Owens was a social reformer who founded the Utopian Socialism. Robert was born in Newton, a small town in Whales on May 14 1771. Owens worked at a cotton factory in Manchester before he opened his own mill in New Lanark. Scotland. what the Utopian Socialism was, is a label that defined the first modern socialist, it was often described as a futuristic and ideal society soon to come.