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Abraham Darby
Developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fulled by coke rather than charcoal -
Jethro Tull
Part of the British Agricultural Revolution, invented the horse- drawn seed drill in 1700. Helped plant seeds in neat even rows -
James Hargreaves
Weaver, carpenter. Inventor of the "spinning Jenny" -
Adam Smith
Became famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations -
John Roebuck
Industrial, scale manufacturer of Sulfuric Acid -
Henry Cort
English inventor. inventor of the molten iron paddling process rods -
Robert Fulton
Developed a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Clermont -
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin -
George Stephenson
English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Called "The father of Railways" -
John kay
Invented the flying shuttle -
Cyrus Field
Laid the fist telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858 -
John Wesley
American Inventor, production of celluloid. First industrial plastic
