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Jethro Tull was a scientific farmer and created a more effictient way to sow fields with his seed drill.
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John Kay, a machinist, made a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels. The shuttle carried yarn to create a textile and greatly increased the productivity of workers.
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James Hargreaves was a textile worker and in 1764 he invented a spinning wheel which allowed one spinner to work 8 threads at a time.
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James Watt was a mathematical instrument maker. He thought for two years about how to improve the steam engine idea. He came up with an idea and was funded by a man named Matthew Boulton to make it. It became wildly successuful.
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In 1769 Richard Arkwright invented the water frame. A machine that used waterpower from the streams to drive spinning wheels.
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Samuel Crompton in 1779 combined aspects of the spinning jenny and the water frame to create the spinning mule which made thread that was stronger, finer, and more consistent.
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Samuel Slater a mill worker came to the US and built a spinning machine from memory. This began the era of industrialization in the Americas.
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William Cockerill in 1799 illegally made his way to belgium with plans of mills. He then began constructing mills for Belgium.
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Richard Trevithick took the steam engine and put it in a locomotive to create what would be one of the most successful means of transportation for hundreds of years to come.
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Marx and Engels created a 23 page pamphlet that outlined their ideas of a completely socialist europe. In which everyone got what they needed and worked for the common good of the people.
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When the civil war ended in the US experienced a technological boom that throttled industrialization in america.
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In the 1870s Germany's push for industrialization began to gain speed and they soon became a dominant industrial power in Europe.
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