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Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented a bicycle
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Forster's Act set up state-funded board schools for primary education.
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the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
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Toynbeeand the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that and the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that the industrial growth had been stimulated by Britain's trade.
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Karl Benz invented the motor car.
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John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
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the coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries.
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Albert Einstein developed the general theory of relativity
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thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand