1.Communist Manifesto = MARX
2.laissez-faire = SMITH
3.standardized parts = WHITNEY
4.assembly-line production = FORD
5.improved road construction = McADAM
6.steamboat = FULTON
7.steam engine = WATT
To be complete, let's note the first names of those pioneers too:
Karl Marx and his partner Friedrich Engels originated communism.
Adam Smith championed liberal economic theory that came to be known as capitalism.
Eli Whitney not only invented the cotton gin but also, at a musket factory where he made rifles for the US government, began the use of standardized, interchangeable machine parts.
Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line in the manufacture of automobiles.
John Loudon McAdam devised the use of layers of small crushed stones for road construction.
Robert Fulton is credited with creating the first commercially successful steamboat.
James Watt previously had made significant improvements to make steam engines workable for industrial applications.