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Jethro Tull was a great agricultural inventor, making the horse drawn hoe, the improved plow, and the seed drill.
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An English Quaker who smelted iron with coke and founded the Bristol Iron Company
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Thomas Newcomen used his high cost atmospheric pressure driven device to pump out water from mines; precursor for the Watt design
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John Kay invented the Flying shuttle, an important step to automatic weaving
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Richard Arkwright was an English inventor who created the spinning frame, a device that wove 128 threads at a time into fabric.
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An inventor who spun cotton ever since he was young, he went on to create the Spinning mule which permitted mass production and high thread quality
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At first a clergyman, the cotton mills of Cromford Derbyshire caught his eye, helping him create the power loom
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An influential French chemist and surgeon who made the Leblanc process (of making alkali soda from salt)
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Eli Whitney was a US born inventor who created the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds from cotton
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Robert Fulton started out as a painter, but eventually made designs for a submarine and created the steamboat
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A wealthy stock broker that invented the idea of monetarism in one of his books
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A Prussian born philosopher and economist who invented Communism through his book Communist Manifesto
