inventors

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  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull
    Invented the seed drill.

  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    Author of Wealth of Nations.

  • James Watt

    James Watt
    Improved the steam engine.

  • Samuel Crompton

    Samuel Crompton
    Invented the spinning mule.

  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort
    Invented the reverberatory furnace.

  • Nicolas LeBlanc

    Nicolas LeBlanc
    Developed the process for making soda ash.

  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Invented the cotton gin.

  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta
    Invented the first electrical battery.

  • David Ricardo

    David Ricardo
    Introduced in Principles of Political Economy and Taxation was the theory of comparative advantage.

  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe
    Invented the first practical sewing machine.

  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    Published The Communist Manifesto.

  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field
    Invented the first telegraph cable.