John Kay was born on the 17 of June 1704 in Bury, Lancashire, England. He died in 1780. He was an English inventor. One of his most famous inventions includes the flying shuttle. The flying shuttle was used to weave cloth. On one side of the flying shuttle was a mechanical device that sent the thread "flying" and it pulled the cord with it back and forth.  In 1733 he patented his invention. What the flying machine did was it made it possible for one person to weave double the width alone.

Fredrich Bessel:

He was born on the 22 July 1784 in Minden, Westphalia, (witch is now Germany).

And he died on the 17 March 1846 in Köngsberg, Prussia (witch is now Kaliningrad, Russia).  He studied geography, astronomy and mathematics. What he did was he discovered the parallax of 61 Cygni in1883, and he also calculating the movements and positions of over 50000 star constellations. When he was a boy he had a dream of traveling, so he studied the principles of navigation, languages and geography. After that he started to study astronomy and mathematics. The movement of Halley’s Comet was just another thing he discovered from star pictures in 1607.

Sir Wihelm Hercshel:

Sir William Herschel was born 15 November 1738, and died 25 August 1822. What he is famous for is discovering all the planets that we know of now. Back in his day people called him the father of astronomy. Later in his life he found out that he was not born an Englishman but a German. He also became a musician and taught music, since he did this his life was more calming and happy. After three years he went back to astronomy, and then he made more inventions than ever.  And it was Sir Wilhelm Herschel who made the biggest telescope, with which he surveyed the stars.

Leonardo da Vinci:

Da Vinci was born in 1452, to Piero da Vinci, in the town of Vinci, Italy. And he died in 1519.  Leonardo da Vinci was the smartest man and his brain power out smarted all around him. He had many talents including engineering, philosophy, artistic talents and he was also a scientist. Most of the people in the world know him for his incredible artistic talents, but the most value to us now in this time was his science. He was interested in the phenomena of light, and he wrote about it, he said light consisted of primary colors (witch is true). He made over 100 works during his life time, an he had over 4200 note pages. Later in his life he studied these things: light, sound, air, hearing, water, optics, anatomy, astronomy, speech, gradients, pigments, mechanics, engineering, architecture, astronomy, and during these studies he also discovered steam power.

Charles Coulomb:

Charles Augustin de Coulomb was born in 1736 and died 1806; he was born in France, into a family that had a good social position. When hi has a boy he had no money because his father made some bad choices. He left home because he had some arguments whit his mother. He went to school in Paris and he also went in the army there. His experiments in Mechanical resistance led him to one of two laws. One relates friction to the normal pressure. The second and most famous of Coulomb's Law is for electrostatic charges, which he observed that the force between charges is as the reciprocal of the square of the distance between. The SI unit is of charge, the Coulomb, is named in his honor.

Isaac Newton:

Isaac Newton was born in England on the 4 of january1643 Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. He died 31 March 1727.  He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and a natural philosopher. Many hold him as the most influential scientist in history. Isaac Newton wrote this book: Philosophiae Naturalis  Principia Mathematica. In the book he describes the laws of motion and universal gravitation. His book is the groundwork for classical mechanics. He was the first person to show that bodies on earth and in space all have the same set of natural laws. Isaac Newton called it gravity! 

James Hargreaves:

James Hargreaves was an Englishman, who was born in 1720. He died 22 of April 1778. He invented a spinning machine in 1764, he called it the spinning-Jenny. The first invention ever to let a human spin wool, cotton, or flax into a purity of threads, was made by James Hargreaves. James Hargreaves' got attacked by the workers who had been kicked out of their jobs by the Spinning-Jenny. But there was a problem whit the Spinning-Jenny it was only able to use the yarn for course-weave fabrics, because it was light and too lightly twisted.

Antonie Lavoisier:

Antonie-Laurent de Lavoisier was born the 26 of August 1743 in Paris, France. He died the 8 May. He studied chemistry and mineralogy and is held as the founder of modern chemistry. In 1775 he independently discovered oxygen. (Oxygen was first discovered, by Carl Scheele in 1772). He was admitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1768. He explained what we know as oxidation, (it is the same as combustion) and deoxidation (it is the same as reduction). He made a lot of other discoveries the study of chemical reactions. And he clearly described the role of oxygen in the breathing of animals and plants.