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Jethro Tull/ Seed Drill
A seed drill sows the seeds for crops by metering out individual seeds, positioning them in the soil, and covering them to a certain average depth. It revolutionized the farming industry. It made farming easier and more efficient. -
Abraham Darby/Coke Smelting
It replaced charcoal with coal in metal foundries during the process of refining metals. This was important to Britain's future since charcoal was becoming scarce and more expensive. -
Thomas NewComen/ Steam Engine
This was the first steam engine built. It was used to pump water by a method to generate power from atmospheric pressure. It made it possible to live and work without having to worry about the less abundant presence of waterways. -
John Kay/ Flying Shuttle
It was an important step toward automatic weaving. It was mounted on wheels in a track and used paddles to shoot the shuttle from side to side when the weaver jerked a cord. The machine allowed weavers to weave fabrics to any width at rates faster than ever before. -
John Roebuck/ lead chamber process
It was a method of producing sulfuric acid by oxidizing sulfur dioxide with moist air, using gaseous nitrogen oxides as catalyst. The series of event took place in a large, boxlike chamber of lead sheets. -
Richard ArkWright/ Water Frame
It was a spinning machine powered by water that produced a cotton yarn suitable for a warp. It was an improvement of Jame's Hargreaves spinning jenny. -
Edmund Cartwright/ Power Loom
It was a steam powered loom that mechanized the process of weaving threads into cloth. This reduced the need for humans to oversee the weaving process. Cloth was produced at a must faster rate because of this. -
James Watt/ Watt Steam Engine
It was his first and greatest invention. It was used to pump water out of the coal mines. It was the later on to still pump water, but also grind barley It was more effective and efficient that earlier models. -
Nicolas Leblanc/ Soda Ash
He developed the process of making soda ash (sodium carbonate) for common salt. This process became one of the most important industrial- chemical processes of the 19th century. -
Eli Whitney/ The cotton Gin
He invented the cotton gin. It sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. It helped southern planters maintain and expand slavery. -
Elias Howe/Sewing Machine
It greatly improved the speed of making clothes. It caused clothes prices to decrease and the supply to increase. It was a lockstitch sewing machine. It stitched fabric and other materials together with thread. -
Karl Marx/Communism
He was the founder of the political idea known as communism. It is a form of socialism, that had a classless society in which all wealth and property was owned by the community as a whole rather than an individual. He wrote the book the "Communist Manifesto" which expressed the idea of communism.