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Charles Townshend popularized crop rotation
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James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
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Richard Arkwright patented and improved the water frame.
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James Watt improved the steam engine.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
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Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery.
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Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the first programmable loom.
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George Stephenson invented the locomotive.
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Samuel Morse invented the single wire telegraph.
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Gottlieb Daimler invented the first successful internal-combustion engine.
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Louis Daguerre invented an early camera called the daguerreotype.
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Henry Bessemer invented a process to produce steel inexpensively.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the first practical telephone.
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Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb.
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Guglielmo Marconi invented the first wireless telegraph.