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James Watt - Steam Engine
machine using steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat -
Jethro Tull - Seed Drill
a mechanical seeder that sowed efficiently at the correct depth and spacing and then covered the seed so that it could grow -
Abraham Darby - Smelting Iron with Coke
provides the heat needed to melt the ore, and second, when it is burnt, it has the effect of 'stealing' the oxygen from the iron ore, leaving only the pure iron behind -
Thomas Newcomen - Steam Engine
The first truly successful steam engine to drive a pump to remove water from mines -
John Roebuck - leaden condensing chambers
all tapered cylinders that were externally cooled by water flowing down the outside surface of the chamber -
Richard Arkwright - Water Frame
spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel -
Robert Owen - Spinning Mules
allowed one person to work more than 1,000 spindles at the same time -
Henry Cort - The Puddling Process
converts pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal -
Jeremy Bentham - Panopticon
a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control -
George Stephenson - Steam Locomotive
Locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam -
Karl Marx - Communism
individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things -
John Wesley - Celluloid
photographic film for both still and motion picture cameras.