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He was and agricultural pioneer. Jethro Tull invented the seed drill, the horse drawn hoe and an improved plough. -
He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke instead of charcoal. -
Watt invented the Watt steam engine, the photocopier, Watt's linkage and parallel motion. -
Kay was an English mechanic and engineer. He invented the flying shuttle which was an important step towards automatic weaving. -
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher, pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Enlightenment Era. He came up with the concept of GDP (gross domestic product). He wrote the book, "The Wealth of Nations" -
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. He invented the spinning mule. -
Henry Cort was an English Ironmaster, and a pioneer in the iron industry. Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems -
he made the Leblanc process, produced sodium carbonate by first exposing sea salt to sulfuric acid, and then converting the product to soda by calcinating (heating at a high temperature) with limestone and charcoal. -
He was an early pioneer of socialism, one of the first to use the term "socialist" in publications. He made use of the first American Sea island cotton. He became a manager and partner in the Manchester firm. -
David Ricardo was a classical economist best known for his theory on wages and profit, the labor theory of value, the theory of comparative advantage, and the theory of rents -
Howe was an American inventor, he invented the modern lockstitch sewing machine. I was first used for making blankets and clothing. -
Cyrus Field was a businessman who created the Atlantic Telegraphic Company and the whole idea of the telegraph cable.