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Industrial Revolution

Richard Arkwright: Father of the British Industrial Revolution

Sir Richard Arkwright invented the water frame for spinning cotton. He opened the world's first water-powered cotton mill in Derbyshire, England.

Joseph Wright of Derby, Oil on Canvas. [c.1789-1790]. From Derby Museum & Art Gallery.

Charles Babbage - Mechanical Computing Machine

Henry Bessemer - Converts Pig Iron into Steel

Matthew Boulton - Steam-powered Coin-minting Machinery

Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Builder of railroad lines, tunnels, bridges, steamships

Edmund Cartwright - Water-powered Loom

Edmund Cartwright

History of the Industrial Revolution

Brief History of the Cotton Industry

Samuel Crompton - Spinning Mule

Abraham Darby - Coke-smelting

Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic Induction

Faraday's Magnetic Field Induction Experiment

Part I: Sneaking Up on Einstein

World Energy Systems- Faraday

James Hargreaves - Spinning Jenny

Rowland Hill - Prepaid Mail & First Postage Stamps

John Kay - Flying Shuttle

Spinning the Web (Search John Kay)
Government Art Collection
The 18th Century: Powered Machines and the Industrial Revolution

Guglielmo Marconi - Transatlantic Signal from Cornwall, England, to Canada

Andrew Meikle - (Scottish) Water-Powered Threshing Machine

Thomas Newcomen - Atmospheric Steam Engine

Adam Smith - Founder- Modern Economics

George Stephenson - Stockton & Darlington Railway

Richard Trevithick (Cornish) - Steam Carriage

James Watt - Improved Steam Engine

Josiah Wedgwood - Pottery-making Factory