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Jethro Tull
In 1701 he perfected the horse drawn seed drill, helped developed a horse drawn hoe in 1709, in 1731 wrote The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: Or an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. This helped improve farming -
John Roebuck
He was a British physician, chemist, and inventor, who did the experiments that helped James Watt perfect the steam engine in 1769, he lead to the invention of sulfuric acid. These experiments eventually led to the invention of the steam engine. -
Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor of the atmospheric steam engine. This helped improve machinery and production. -
John Wesley
Wesley adopted unconventional and controversial practices, such as field preaching, to reach factory laborers and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village culture at the start of the Industrial Revolution. This helped spread religion to factory workers and improve there lives -
James Watts
He was the Father of the Industrial Revolution and perfected the steam engine. This helped improve industry and improve the lives of many. -
Adam Smith
A Scottish social philosopher and political economist, he wrote one work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This helped to improve social conditions ad introduce new ideas. -
Henry Cort
A British inventor of the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron. This helped industry and production of iron. -
Eli Whitney
An American inventor who made the cotton gin in 1793. This helped improve production and the lives of farm workers who would have previously had to pick out cotton seeds by hand. -
Robert Fulton
Was an American inventor, engineer, and artist who took steam boating from the experimental phase to the successful phase. This helped improved transportation and industry. -
Robert Owen
Welsh manufacturer turned reformer, one of the most influential early 19th-century advocates of utopian socialism. His New Lanark mills in Lanarkshire, Scotland, with their social and industrial welfare programs, became a place of pilgrimage for statesmen and social reformers. In 1813 Owen published two of the four essays in A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character. This helped improve social conditions. -
Karl Marx
He was a German revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. He wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" in 1848. This helped to improve social conditions and introduce new ideas. -
Cyrus Field
An American financier who made the first transatlantic cable. This helped connect American and Europe and improve communication.