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Jethro Tull: The Seed Drill
Way to plant more efficiently. -
Thomas Newcomen: Newcomen Atmospheric Steam Engine
first practical fuel-burning engine -
Richard Arkwright: Factory System
Arkwright developed a spinning machine for cotton. This then developed into the creation of the factory system. -
John Roebeck: Steam Engine
the experiments of the Scottish engineer James Watt led to the development of the first commercially practical condensing steam engine (1769). -
Adam Smith: concept of gross domestic product (GDP)
GDP represents the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced (and sold on the market) -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort discovered the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron -
Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin
revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber -
Robert Fulton: the Steamboat
World's first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton's boat made its first run in August 1807 on the Hudson River. -
Elias Howe: Sewing machine
first ever lockstitch sewing machine in the world -
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. -
Cyrus Field: The Telegraph Cable
Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. -
John Wesley: Celluloid
First synthetic plastic