John Kay -- James Hargreaves -- Richard Arkwright -- James Watt -- Edmund Cartwright -- Samuel Crompton -- Robert Fulton -- Eli Whitney -- Samuel Slater -- The Stephenson Family -- George Stephenson -- Robert Stephenson -- George Robert Stephenson -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- Cyrus Hall Mccormick -- Elias Howe -- Andrew Carnegie -- Margaret E. Knight -- John D. Rockefeller -- Elijah Mccoy -- George Westinghouse -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Early life and career -- Menlo Park -- The phonograph -- The electric lightbulb -- "Invention factory" in West Orange -- Later years -- Nikola Tesla -- Henry Ford -- Charles Martin Hall -- George Washington Carver -- The Wright brothers -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Lee de Forest -- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney.