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Cyrus Hall McCormick
United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)
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John Mercer
British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)
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Isaac Merrit Singer
United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)
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Eli Whitney
United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
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Will Keith Kellog
United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
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Alfred Krupp
German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp; his firm provided ordnance for German armies from the 1840s through World War II (1812-1887)
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Peter Paul Mauser
German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)
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Charles William Post
United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)