Famous People of the Industrial Revolution
Across
- 2. invented coke smelting and advanced the mass production of brass and iron goods
- 4. a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer
- 6. Scottish political economist and philosopher
- 8. an English novelist who wrote "Frankenstien"
- 9. invented the flying shuttle
- 10. was a weaver, carpenter, and inventor and was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning
- 12. English journalist, first person to establish a permanent campaigning organisation
- 15. English inventor who designed the first model of the steam engine
- 18. he discovered crop roation
- 19. English American writer and pamphleteer
- 20. an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution
- 21. was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist
Down
- 1. American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908
- 3. his inventions mechanized the making of yarn and thread for the textile industry, also helped to create the factory system of manufacture
- 5. British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
- 7. Scottish civil engineer and road-builder who is famous for his invention of the "macadamisation"
- 8. known as "The Father of Railways"
- 11. Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children
- 13. a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century
- 14. English writer and social critic remembered as one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century
- 16. American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
- 17. Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer who improved on the first design of the steam engine of 1712