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Jethro Tull- Seed Drill
Perfected a horse-drawn seed drill. Planted seeds in neat rows. -
Abraham Darby- Coke Smelting
Coke smelting replaced charcoal with coal in metal foundries during the process of refining metals -
James Watt- Steam Engine
First engine -
James Hargreaves- Spinning Jenny
helped the handling of large quantities of harvested cotton -
Adam Smith- Wealth of Nations
Book first modern work of economics -
Samuel Crompton- Spinning Mule
spun textile fibers into yarn -
Henry Cort- Puddling process
1st step first in making appreciable volumes of high-grade bar iron -
Eli Whitney- Cotton Gin
Took seeds out of cotton -
Nicolas LeBlanc- Leblanc process
industrial process for the production of soda ash -
George Stephenson- First Locomotive
Train runs on coal. -
David Ricardo- iron law of wages
wage limits -
Elias Howe- Sewing Machine
250 stitches a minute