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-The '''Lunar Society''' was a private club of [[scientists]], [[Industrialism|industrialists]], [[philosopher]]s and [[free thinker]]s that met in [[Birmingham]], [[England]], between 1765 and 1813. They met once a month on the full moon, hence their name, and they jokingly called themselves 'lunatics'. Membership included among others:
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-* [[Matthew Boulton]], inventor of the modern factory system of production
-* [[James Watt]], inventor of the steam engine
-* [[Erasmus Darwin]], physician, poet and natural philosopher
-* [[Joseph Priestly]], scientist, discoverer of oxygen
-* [[Josiah Wedgwood]], pottery manufacturer
-* [[Benjamin Franklin]], scientist and politician
-The society also dabbled in politics, and as upholders of the rights of man put their support behind those other two great revolutions of the late 18th century, the [[American Revolution]] and the [[French Revolution]].
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