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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill and increased farmers' profits by making planting more efficient.
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In 1733, John Kay invented the flying shuttle and doubled the work a factory worker could do in a day.
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James Watt, funded by Matthew Boulton, greatly improved the steam engine and made it much more efficient.
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Karl Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx introduced the world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism.
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People like Slater smuggled English textile producing ideas into the US and expanded them to progress into a technological boom.
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With the resources from the Ruhr valley and Britain's textile-making inventions, Germany was ready to become the dominant industrial power in Europe when it hit.
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The British workers wanted higher wages and less working hours so they went on strike.
