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Jethro Tull created the seed drill and it made distributing seeds faster, but also more efficient.
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Abraham Darby created coke smelting and that replaced charcoal with coal in metal foundries during the process of recining metals. During this time, Britains charcoal was scarce
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Henry Cort invented the wrought iron and that made the production of household goods from iron significantly easier and less expensive.
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Thomas Newcomen created the atmospheric steam engine and that helped improve the steam engine.
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Charles Townshend invented the crop rotation system and it became the chief way to keep a field fertile and make it usable all year round.
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James Hargreaves created the spinning-Jenny and that is a major improvement on the single spinning wheel.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and that was where a machine separated cotton seeds.
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Robert Fulton invented the steamboat and that made boats powered by steam.
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Henry Bessemer invented the first process of mass producing steal. This was cheap and essential to the development of sky scrapers.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone which is a device used to talk to people from other places.
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Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio and that was a way for people to communicate and listen to things.
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The Wright Brothers invented a plane and that was a new way to travel.