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Enclosures of farming land accelerate in Britain.
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Industrial Revolution
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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Richard Arkwright invents the water frame.
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinery.
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Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron.
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Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
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First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
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First textile factory built in the USA.
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George Stephenson develops the 'Rocket', a working locomotive.
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Gas street lighting common in Britain.
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Brunel's steamship 'The Great Western' crosses the Atlantic.
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Samuel Morse sends first successful telegraph message.
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US warships visit Japan.
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Bessemer process enables mass production of steel.
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Suez Canal opens.
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Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany.
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Overland Telegraph connects Australia to Asia.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light bulb.
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Eiffel Tower completed in France
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Wright Brothers invent modern flight.
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Trans-Siberian Railway accelerates Russian industrialisation.
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Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford.
