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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
If he didn't invent the seed drill we would have had to do alot of seed picking and it made production faster. -
Thomas Newcomen invents the steam engine
Without the steam engine there would have been no trains to carry around cargo. -
Charles Townshed develops four year crop rotation
This is important because at all times of the year there was a new crop being planted and sold for money. -
Robert Blakewell uses selective breeding
This was important because some animals today are made for meat or show or even for milk. And those breeds had to be created. -
The Industrial Revolution begins
This was and is important because new machines were made and there was more food and people. -
James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
This was important because it helped people so they didn't have to work that hard anymore. -
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
This was important because without the cotton gin people would have to pick the seeds out of the cotton by hand. -
Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto
This was important because the working class didn't like the way that the upper class were treating them. -
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
This is important because without the light from the light bulb we would not be able to see at night and we would not have invented other things like computers without them. -
Henry Ford invents the assembly line
This was important because without the assembly line everything would take longer to make and they would make less money.