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Jethro Tull | he invented seed drill allowed farmers to plant rows of seeds |
Samuel Slater | bring spinning knowledge to America from Great Britain |
Francis Cabot Lowell | opened first textile mill in the US in the early 1800s |
Matthew Perry | a Navy officer who introduced Japan to steam power in the mid 1800s |
John Kay | invented the flying shuttle |
James Hargreaves | invented the spinning jenny |
Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame; used water to power spinning machines |
James Watt | invented steam engine |
Edmund Cartwright | invented power loom; wove thread into cloth as fast as new spinning machine produced it |