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In 1769, James Watts patented an improved the steam engine and ignited the construction of steam boats and with it, the Industrial Revolution.
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In June, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers showed off the first public demonstration of a balloon. Then, on November 28, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes took part in the first manned hot air ballon flight in history, leading the way for the future of aviation
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On February 1st, 1804, the world's first railway steam locomotive, developed by Englishman Richard Trevithick, took place in England.
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Alexander Graham Bell earns the patent for the first telephone in 1876. The invention changed the way we saw communication and enhanced people's ability to transport information in an unprecedented way.
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Karl Benz builds his own four-stroke engine that was used in his automobiles. His design was patented in 1886 and became the first automobile in production. The automobile introduced greater mobility & concomitant geographic expansion outwards.
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In 1937 Alan Turing developed the Turing machine which was the conceptual precursor to the computer
