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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.
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James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning
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Wrote the Wealth of Nations.
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James Watt, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
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Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
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Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
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Karl Heinrich Marx was a Prussian-German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie, often referred to as Marie Curie, was a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
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