Who are the scientists of the industrial civilization at that time,and their inventions?

Question

Who are the scientists of the industrial civilization at that time,and their inventions?

Answer 1

You'd be better off reposting this in History.

Answer 2

James Watt : the steam engine  for pumping out mines and for powering machines in the semi-automated factories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt

Jethro Tull's seed drill machine

Joseph Foljambe's Rotherham plough, the first commercially viable iron plough

Andrew Meikle's threshing machine

Charles Townshend's importation from Flanders of the four field crop rotation system

scientific breeding efforts of Robert Bakewell and Thomas Coke who introduced selective breeding (mating together two animals with particularly desirable characteristics), and inbreeding (to stabilize certain qualities).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agr...

textile machinery such as Richard Arkwright's water-frame cotton-spinning , James Hargreaves's Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule for the cotton mills

iron founding using coke in all stages of iron smelting, replacing charcoal, esp. in the production of bar iron which depended on the use of potting and stamping (for which a patent expired in 1786) or puddling (patented by Henry Cort in 1783 and 1784)

John Smeaton's rediscovery of concrete in 1756 (from hydraulic lime mortar)