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Abraham Darby
invented sand castling -
James Hargreaves
invented the spinning jenny -
Henry Cort
the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron -
Edmund Cartright
invented the wool combing machine -
Nicolas LeBlanc
invented the process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) from common salt (sodium chloride) -
Eli Whitney
invented the cotton gin -
Alessandro Volta
invented the electric battery -
Jeremy Bentham
invented a prison system called the Panopticon -
Karl Marx
invented "The Communist Manifesto" -
Cyrus Field
invented the telegraph cable -
Elias Howe
invented the lockstitch sewing machine -
John Wesley
invented the celluloid
