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Henry Clay Frick

American industrialist and philanthropist

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Abraham Darby

British ironmaster

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Dud Dudley

English ironmaster

James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)

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