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Jethro Tull
was an English agricultural pioneer who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill. -
Abraham Darby
Developed the coke burning blast furnace -
Thomas Newcomen
Was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine -
Adam Smith
Was a Scottish economist most remembered for his masterpiece, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." -
John Kay
Invented the flying shuttle—an improvement to weaving looms and a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution -
Adam Smith
Scottish social philosopher and political economist wrote 'The Wealth of Nations' -
Edmund Cartwright
Was an English inventor. He invented the wool combing machine. -
Eli Whitney
Was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. -
Alessandro Volta
was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who invented electric battery -
Elias Howe
invented the first practical sewing machine. -
Karl Marx
German thinker Friedrich Engels and Marx published “The Communist Manifesto.” -
Cyrus Field
Cyrus West Field was 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.
