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Jethro Tull
invented the seed drill. allowed farmers to plant seeds at the rigt depth and spacing -
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Thomas Newcomen
created the atmospheric engine. was a engine that use fuel to power machines -
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James Watt
Made the steam engine. It gave factories the ability to use electricity were water power was not present. it gave factories the ability to work for greater amount of time and producing more products. -
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Richard Arkwright
inveted the water frame. spin large amounts of cotton. -
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Robert Owen
Made the spinning mule. the spinning mule spun cotton and other fibers. it made it easier to make yarn and thread -
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Henry Cort
Made the puddling process. Converted pig iron into wrought iron by heating and stirring it in a furnca with out using charcol. It was the first way that wrought iron was produced on a large scale. -
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Edmund Cartwright
Made the power loom. was the first wool-coming machine. it was used to weave clothing and other fabcirs. -
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Nicolas LeBlanc
Made the soda ash. It was used in making better and cheaper soap, paper bleached fabric and glass. it made more efficent to make glass and other produces with the use of soda ash. -
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Eli Whitney
Made the cotton gin. It made the work of picking cotton more efficent than having people pick it by hand. it was fast for famers to us the cotton gin instead of using people. -
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Robert Fulton
made the steamboat. It was the first commercially successful steamboat. It made transporting people and material along long rivers. -
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Elias Howe
Made the sewing machine. It made making clothing much faster and women to be able to work at home and for factories to produce more products. -
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cyrus field
Made the first transatlantic cable. It allowed for the U.S. to communicate to other counties withou tthe use of a ship.