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Possible Industrial Revolution Topics

  • Jethro Tull –  Cornelius Vermuyden  - agricultural advances
  • James Watt-steam engine
  •  John Kay-flying shuttle
  • James Hargreaves-spinning jenny
  • Richard Arkwright- water frame
  • Samuel Crompton-spinning mule
  • Thomas Newcomen/George Stephenson-steam locomotive
  • Robert Fulton - steamboat
  • Eli Whitney-cotton gin
  • Henry Cort and Henry Bessemer-puddling process
  • Guglielmo Marconi – wireless and Samuel Morse - code
  • Louis Pasteur-germ theory of disease/bacteria
  • Joseph Lister-antiseptics
  • John Dalton & Dimitry Mendeleyev (spellings vary) –atom and classification of elements based on atomic weight
  • Charles Darwin-organic evolution
  • Michael Faraday and Thomas Edison – contributions to electricity
  • Florence Nightengale – nursing
  • John Wesley – Methodism
  • Emmaline Pankhurst – universal suffrage