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Thomas Newcomen
Inventor of the first piratical steam engine -
James Hargreaves
Invented the spinning jenny -
Henry Cort
He was an iron refiner -
Alessandro Volta
invented the battery -
Adam Smith
Author of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" -
James Watt
Improved the steam engine to make it more universal -
Edmund Cartwright
Invented the power loom -
Nicolas LeBlanc
Created soda ash from salts -
Robert Owen
Founder of Utopian Socialism -
George Stephenson
He created the first locomotive, in 1821 he appointed an engineer to design and make a railway for it. it opened 4 years later in 1825. this was know as the Darlington railway and was the first public railway. -
David Ricardo
Attempted to improve the income of workers with the "iron Law Of Wages" and was an author. -
Cyrus Feild
Inventor of the first Transatlantic Cable (Telegraph)
