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Founder of the Bristol Iron company
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Invented the first atmospheric steam engine. Installed the first working one in 1712
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Invented the horse driven spinning mill. Created mills that produced yarn.
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Invented the Watt steam engines. The first 2 were installed in 1776
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Invented the spinning mule which permitted large scale manufacture of high quality thread and yarn.
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Invented the first power loom.
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Invented the cotton gin which helped end the manual picking of the cotton seed.
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Invented the first submarine.
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Invented the "Blucher" the first and his first locomotive for hauling coal from mines.
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Italian physicist that invented the electric battery powered by the first source of continuous current.
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Contributed to his theoretical base for modern international communism
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Simplified the production of celluloid the first industrial plastic.