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Who improved the steam engine and is often credited for it?
James Watt, though Thomas Newcomen created an earlier version.
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Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney.
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Who wrote The Wealth of Nations and promoted capitalism?
Adam Smith.
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Who introduced the idea of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx.
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Who developed a process to mass-produce steel?
Henry Bessemer (and William Kelly in the U.S.).
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Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell.
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Who invented the first practical light bulb?
Thomas Edison.
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Who pioneered radio communication?
Guglielmo Marconi.
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Who is associated with the theory of evolution and natural selection?
Charles Darwin.
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