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Enclosures of farming land accelerate in Britain
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James Hardgreaves 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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Firt 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 corosses 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 industrialsation of Germany
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Overland telegraph connects Australia to Asia
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light buld.
