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Copernicus claims the universe is heliocentric (sun cetered)
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James Watt perfects the Steam Engine..A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny.
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Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton Gin
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Robert Fulton invents the first steam boat.
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Limits work hours for women and children
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Opening of the Suez Canal
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Karl Marx writes the communist manifiesto
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Marie Curie receives Nobel Prize for her work with radioactivity and itsability to cure some diseases.
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Albert Einstien publishes article on the Theory of Relativity
