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Prompt: Isaac Singer helped commercialize this machine that automates stitching fabric.
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  1. 01Isaac Singer helped commercialize this machine that automates stitching fabric.
  2. 02Willis Carrier developed an early modern system of this kind to control temperature and humidity in a printing plant.
  3. 03Cai Lun is traditionally credited with improving the manufacture of this lightweight writing material in China.
  4. 04James Watt's improvements made this invention practical enough to power the Industrial Revolution.
  5. 05Gutenberg developed this machine in fifteenth-century Mainz to reproduce pages using movable metal type.