FAMOUS PEOPLE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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Across
  1. 3. British novelist, journalist, editor, and illustrator
  2. 4. Developed the coke burning blast furnace
  3. 6. Inventor best known for his improvements to the steam engine
  4. 12. English Romantic painter
  5. 13. Renowned as the “Father of the Railways”
  6. 14. Important figure in the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the UK
  7. 15. Invented the cotton gin
  8. 17. American industrialist who founded a motor company
  9. 18. Had a model textile factory in New Lanark, Scotland
  10. 20. He created “common sense”
  11. 21. Invented the flying shuttle
Down
  1. 1. British weavers and textile workers who were against mechanised looms and knitting frames.
  2. 2. English weaver who invented the spinning Jenny
  3. 5. Scottish economist and philosopher who was a key figure in the Scottish enlightenment
  4. 7. Created both the spinning machine and water frame
  5. 8. Invented the 4 crop rotation method
  6. 9. Founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children
  7. 10. British politician who was a leader in the movement to get rid of the slave trade.
  8. 11. English inventor who created the atmospheric engine
  9. 13. Wrote Frankenstein
  10. 16. Designed the seed drill to make farming an easier task
  11. 19. - Irish naturalist and geologist