Famous people of the Industrial Revolution
Across
- 2. Was the founder and director of homes for poor children
- 6. Invented the cotton gin
- 7. invented the spinning jenny
- 10. Made improvements to the steam engine
- 12. Wrote in ‘The Age of Reason’ I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
- 14. developed the coke burning blast furnace
- 15. believed that education should go beyond reading, and writing in order to build on the behavior of the person throughout their life.
- 16. Were a secret oath-based organization
- 20. Adopted the Norfolk four-course system of crop rotation from Europe
- 22. he was the son of a shoemaker who died in 1794
Down
- 1. owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest people in the world
- 3. Invented the spinning frame
- 4. He had a private geological museum
- 5. the leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
- 8. "Father of railways”
- 9. invented the flying shuttle
- 11. He designed plowing and seeding contraptions
- 13. created the atmospheric engine
- 17. Admired for providing a stark portrait of the Victorian-era underclass
- 18. most successful and controversial landscape painter of nineteenth-century England
- 19. Wrote the book “The Wealth of Nations”
- 21. was a leading figure in the Romantic movement