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Jethro Tull
1701 Jethro Tull invented the seed drill. The seed were first placed into the ground by hand but that took too long. The seed drill efficiently and at the correct depth spacing the seeds out, then would cover the seeds back up. -
John Roebuck
John Roebuck created the lead chamber. Method of producing sulfuric acid and new ways of producing more malleable iron using a pit fire blasted with a forced draft air. -
James Watt
In 1769 James Watt invented the steam engine. Its purpose was it enabled rotary machines in factories. -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort invented the puddling process for making wrought iron. The puddling process converted pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal. It was the first method that allowed quality wrought iron to be produced on a large scale. -
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham invented the Panopticon. The invention was a social control mechanism that would become a comprehensive symbol for modern authority and discipline. -
Nicolas LeBlanc
Nicolas LeBlanc invented a way of making sodium bicarbonate into table salt. Because of the wide variety of uses for soda ash, including making soap, glass, paper, and more, this became one of the most important chemical processing innovations of the eighteenth century. -
Eli Whitney
1793 Eli whitney created the cotton gin. The cotton gin made it easier to separate the seeds from the cotton. Making cotton a profitable export crop in the southern United States. -
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery. It allowed scientist to study electricity better than they could with previous sources. -
Robert Fulton
1807 Robert Fulton designed and operated the world's first commercially successful steamboat. The steamboat made transportation and trade by the river easier. -
Elias Howe
1845 Elias Howe created the first practical sewing machine. To make it easier and faster to make clothes, and stitch up other fabric pieces. -
Cyrus Field
1854 Cyrus Field invented the telegraph cable. It shortened the time of communication from Europe to America by 2 weeks. -
John Wesley
1869 was used for photographic film, laying the groundwork for photographic film to replace the photographic plate.