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Abraham Darby
Pig iron fueled by coke instead of charcoal -
Thomas Newcomen
Invented the first practical steam engine -
John Roebuck
John Roebuck developed the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid -
Alessandro Volta
Discovered methane -
Adam Smith
Wrote "The Wealth of Nations" -
Edmund Cartwright
Created power loom -
Nicolas LeBlanc
Manufactured soda ash from table salt -
Eli Whitney
Created the cotton gin, which separates the seeds -
Alessandro Volta
Created the electric battery -
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Karl Marx
German philosopher/journalist -
David Ricardo
Classical economist -
Elias Howe
Created and altered the sewing machine -
Cyrus Field
Laid the first telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean Floor