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Jethro Tull
He created the seed drill -
Thomas Newcomen
Created the Newcomen atmospheric engine (steam engine for pumping water out of mines) -
John Roebuck
Invented the lead process of manufacturing sulfuric acid -
Adam Smith
Created "The Wealth of Nations" and achieved the first comprehensive system of political economy -
Henry Cort
Created the Puddling Process, which replaced hammering with grooved rollers and finish iron -
Eli Whitney
Created the cotton gin, separated cotton fibers from their seeds -
Robert Owen
Created the Utopian Society -
Robert Fulton
Created the first successful commercial steamboat and created the first submarine -
Elias Howe
Created the first ever lock-stitch sewing machine in the world -
Karl Marx
Created the Communist Manifesto -
Cyrus Field
Created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic -
John Wesley
Created the first artificial plastic
