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The first African slaves brought to the American colony of Virgina.
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An English man, Jethro Tull invented the seed drill.
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Arguably the first highly mechanized was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, (England)
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John Kay's invention allowed the shuttle, containing the thread, to be shot backwards and forwards across a much wider bed.
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In England due to increases in labor and land productivity that took place.
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Because the industrial revoluttion was so widespread the dates are between 1760-1830. This was a period of time when advancements were made in many fields of work.
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Invented by James Hargreaves in Stanhill in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn.
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It was invented by three seperate people over the course of one hundred years. But the one who brought everything together was James Watt a Scottich engineer.
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Edmund Cartwright patented the first power loom and set up a factory in Doncaster, England to manufacture cloth.
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Eli Whitney designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. (American)
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Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts for guns. The price was low because they were easy and fast to make. (America)
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The importation of African slaves to the USA banned.
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The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery.
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The great famine in Ireland now approaches it's peak. One third of the population was now reliant upon potato crop.Over the course of the potato famine 1 million people died and another 1 million emigrated from Ireland.
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Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister in Australia
