The Industrial Revolution!

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
03/22/1822	American William Church patents the first typesetting machine.
03/22/1827	Benoit Fourneyron develops the water turbine. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, dies at the age of 74.
03/22/1833	Government sets up inspectorate to ensure that the Factory Acts are being adheared to.
07/16/1836	In Texas, the Battle of Alamo occured.
02/17/1838	Grace Darling, daughter of the Farne Islands lighthouse keeper, rescue survivors of the ship Forfarshire.
03/22/1844	First telegraph service setup between Paddington (London) and Slough.
06/25/1845	Start of the Irish Potato Famine. William McNaught invents the compund steam engine.
08/16/1847	Governement pass the Ten-Hour Act. The 70 hour week becomes 5.5 hours.
03/22/1848	Chartists hold Kennington Common meeting, masterminded by Feargus O'Connor.
03/22/1853	Henery Bessemer invents process for making cheap steel from pig iron, in response to call for guns for Crimean War.
03/22/1853	Sir George Cayley constructs the world's first man-carrying glider. He also invented the caterpillar tractor.
09/12/1859	The firsy commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania.
03/22/1860	Road Locomotives Act restricts speed of road vehicles to 5mph. HMS Warrior, first ironclad battleship, launched.
03/22/1861	Start of the American Civil War, cutting off raw cotton.
03/22/1865	Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
03/22/1871	Formation of the Rugby Football Union in Britain.
05/21/1876	Alaxander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
03/22/1879	Thomas Edison creats the indandescent light bulb.
05/13/1897	Creed perfects the Creed Teleprinter for use in newspaper offices.
04/27/1903	The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight.	After long hours of work the Wright Brothers finally created their dream and were the first humans to fly