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What was the name of the man who created the plowing and seeding contraptions to make the jobs of farmers easier?
Who was the man who created the spinning jenny? (which helped weavers make yarn)
Who was the man who created the Flying Shuttle? (part of the textile loom)
Who was the founder of the Ford Motor Company?
Who was the man credited for creating the spinning frame (which later changed names to the water frame, due to the switch to water power)
Who was the woman who created the essay "Dr. Frankenstein" because of the Inustrial Revolution?
who wrote the book "The Wealth of the Nations" in 1776, right in the middle of the Industrial Revolution?
A person that also helped in the Industrial Revolution.
Who was the man that helped destitute children off of the streets during the time of the Industrial Revolution?
Who started the "New Harmony" community to help workers get equal labor as well as pay?
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
The man who created the first practical steam engine.
Who improved on the original 1712 steam engine and created a new steam engine in 1776?
Who was the Scottish Engineer who created the "Macadamisation", a new way to construct roads?
Who invented a new crop rotation on farms?
Who was the "Father of Railways"?
Who was the lanscape painter whos color and sublimity was unmatched at the time?
Was an English Writer and Scoial Critic.
Who was the leader of the movement to stop slave trade?
A secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, where a radical faction destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest.
Invented Coke Smelting.
He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

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