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Jethro Tull
An English agricultural pioneer from Bershine who helped bring about British agricultural revolution. He invented the seed drill -
John Kay
He was a English machist and engineer. He invited the flying shuttle -
James Watt
He was an inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements in steam engine technology drove the industrial revolution. He profected the steam engine -
Richard Arkwright
An engineer and a leading entrepreneur during the early industrial revolution. He invented the spinning frame -
Samuel Crompton
An English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. He invented the spinning mule -
Henry Cort
An English inventor, he revolutionized the British iron industry with his use of grooved rollers. He invented the puddling process. -
Nicolas Leblanc
A French surgeon and chemist who discovered how to manufacture soda from common salt. This is called the Leblanc process. -
Robert Owen
A welsh textile manufacturer, philosopher, social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. -
Robert Fulton
An American engineer and inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat -
David Richardo
A classical economist best known for his theory on wages and profit, and labor theory of comparative advantage. -
Karl Marx
A philosopher, author, social theorist, and an economist. He is famous for his theories about capitalism and communism. -
Cyrus field
An American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs created the Atlantic telegraph company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
