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Jethro Tull
an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire, who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701, that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later a horse-drawn hoe. -
John Wesley
An American cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley founded methodism and fought to abolish slavery. -
Adam Smith
A Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. Best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments(1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations(1776) -
James Watt
A Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whoe created the first steam engine. -
James Hargreaves
A wearver, carpenter, and inventor in Lancashire. He invented the spinning jenny. It is a multi-spool spinning wheel that increased the rate at which yarn was produced. -
Samuel Crompton
An English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. He invented the spinning mule. It produced a strong, fine and soft yarn which could be used in all textiles -
Robert Owen
A welsh social reformer and one of the founders of the Utopian sosialism and the cooperative movement. He revolutionized the industry by helping ease labor and creating a fair employment standard in England and Britain. -
Eli Whitney
An American inventor best known for inventing the Cotton Gin. This made upland short cotton into a profitable crop. -
John Roebuck
An Enlish inventor and indusrialist who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric acid -
Robert Fulton
An American engineer and inventor who is widley credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. Was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history. -
George Stephenson
An English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. -
Karl Marx
A German philosopher, economist, socialist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He invented communism: this new government regime eventually fell with the Fall of Communism