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Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor who created the first practical steam engine in 1712. The steam engine created power and helped drained water in coal mines.
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John Roebuck invented the lead chamber process of manufacturing sulfuric acid and a process for producing malleable iron.
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John Wesley helped establish the Methodist church. The Methodist church is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
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Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He was also known for inventing the spinning frame.
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Adam Smith was a Scottish political economist and philosopher. He has become famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations.
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James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. He made the steam engine much more efficent.
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Henry Cort was an English ironmaster. He invented the puddling process, and also new ways or rolling and creating stronger and different types of iron.
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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. He also produced many principles about life.
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Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a very efficient way of separating seeds from raw cotton. It was much more faster than doing it by hand,
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Robert Fulton developed the first successful steam boat. The boat carried passengers in New York.
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Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
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Cyrus Field created the first transatlantic message from Queen Victoria to Jame Buchanan.
