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- male, deceased (1819)
- James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the...
- male, deceased (1792)
- Sir Richard Arkwright was an Englishman credited with the spinning frame — later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. Th...
- male, deceased (1809)
- Matthew Boulton (September 3, 1728 - 18 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and engineer. Boulton was born in Birmingham, England where his...
- male, deceased (1741)
- Jethro Tull (born March 1672 in Basildon, Berkshire; died 21 February 1741 in Shalbourne, Berkshire (now Wiltshire)) was an English agricultural...
- male, deceased (1835)
- Samuel Slater (June 9 1768 - April 21 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial...
- male, deceased (1780)
- John Kay (June 17, 1704 - 1780) was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He was born in...
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- John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England. He is known by association with Richard Arkwright for the invention of the spinning...
- male, deceased (1729)
- Thomas Newcomen (born 28 February 1663; died 5 August 1729) was an ironmonger by trade and a Baptist lay preacher by calling. He was born in...
- male, deceased (1778)
- James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter, and an inventor in Lancashire, England. He is credited with inventing the Spinning Jenny in 1764. Along...
- male, deceased (1820)
- James Wilson was born on September 3, 1760 in the parish of Avondale in Scotland. He was a weaver from the town of Strathaven in Lanarkshire, but...
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