James Hargreaves
Invented the spinning jenny
Richard Arkwright
Invented the water frame
Samuel Crompton
Invented the spinning mule
Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen
Invented the steam engine
James Watt
Improved Newcomen's steam engine
Richard Trevithick
Invented the steam locomotive
George Stephenson
Created the "Rocket
William Blake
Called the early factories "satanic mills" and protested against the hard life of the London poor
William Wordsworth
Lamented the destruction of the rural way of life and the pollution of the land and water
Luddites
Group of workers who broke into factories and destroyed machinery