People I
Agricultural scientist: He invented the "seed drill".
Jethro Tull
Religion: He founded "The Salvation Army".
William Booth
Agricultural scientist: He developed the idea of "crop rotation" to keep fields fertile.
Charles Townsend
Religion: He founded the "Sunday School Movement" in Great Britian.
Robert Raikes
Agricultural scientist: He did work on "selective breeding" to develop better farm animals.
Robert Bakewell
Religion: He was the founder of the YMCA.
George Williams
Mechanics: He invented the "cotton gin" to separate seeds from cotton fiber to improve the cotton industry.
Eli Whitney
Religion: Evangelist. He was known as "The Prince of Preachers".
Charles H. Spurgeon
Inventor: He invented the "steam engine".
James Watt
Writer/Theorist: He wrote "The Origin of Species" which stated that Man evolved from a lower species.
Charles Darwin
He created the first successful "steamboat" using the steam engine.
Robert Fulton
Scientist: He created the "Periodic Table" for element classification.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Inventor (Agriculture): He invented to first "mechanical reaper" to help harvest wheat.
Cyrus McCormick
Scientist: He discovered X-Rays.
William Roentgen
Inventor: He invented the "telegraph" and the code that bears his name.
Samuel Morse
This husband and wife team discovered radioactive elements in pitchblend.
Pierre and Marie Curie
Inventor: He invented a process to "vulcanize rubber" to make it more useful.
Charles Goodyear
He was considered the greatest scientific thinker of the 20th century. He developed the "Theory of Relativity".
Albert Einstein
Inventor: He invented an inexpensive way to make "steel" so it could be used in the construction industry.
Henry Bessemer
Literature: His writings include "A Christmas Carol", and "Hard Times". He drew attention to the conditions of the poor in England at the time.
Charles Dickens
Inventor: He invented the "incandescent lightbulb and the phonograph" as well as many other inventions to help mankind.
Thomas Edison
Writer: He wrote about conditions in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. His masterpiece is called "War and Peace".
Leo Tolstoy
Economist: He wrote the book, "The Wealth of Nations" which advocated free trade, and defined a nation by the amount of its productivity.
Adam Smith
American Writer and Humorist: His most famous works are "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn".
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
Writer/Revolutionary: He and Freidrich Engels wrote "The Communist Manifest". He later wrote "Das Kapital" books that advocated economic revolution to remove power from the upper and middle classes.
He also said that religion is "the opiate of the people".
Karl Marx
Painter: "Impressionist" from France
Claude Monet
Inventor: He helped crate better roads.
John McAdams
Art: One of the foremost "expressionists" in painting. His most famous work hangs in my room, "The Starry Night".
Vincent van Gogh
Sculptor: One of the foremost French impressionist sculptors of the 19th Century. His most famous work is called "The Thinker".
Rodin
Musician: He composed "impressionist" music.
Claude DeBussy