Inventors and Inventions
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| X-Rays | Wilhelm C. Roentgen in 1895
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| Sandwich | John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1762
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| Coca-Cola | Dr. John Pemberton in 1886.
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| Blue Jeans | Levi Strauss in 1853
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| Jethro Tull | Seed drill that enabled farmers to plant seeds in orderly rows.
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| John Kay | Improved the weaving loom w/ flying shuttle.
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| James Hargreaves | made threading faster, with his invention the spinning jenny.
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| Richard Arkwright | water frame (water power).
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| Samuel Crompton | Used a spinning mule to produce stronger thread.
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| Edmund Cartwright | Invented the power loom
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| Fredrick Taylor | He invented the idea a division of labor.
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| Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin
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| James Watt | Invented an efficient steam engine.
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| Henry Bessemer | Produced steel from iron steel = more durable metal.
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| Robert Fulton | Invented a steamboat.
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| Samuel Morse | Invented the telegraph (Morse Code)
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| Guglielmo Marconi | His wireless telegraph became today’s radio.
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| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone
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| Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb
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| Ferdinand Von Zeppelin | Created a balloon like devise that carried passengers
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| Wilber and Orville Wright | First successful flight 1903
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| Henry Ford | Assembly line
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