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Thomas Newcomen builds a steam engine to pump water into coalmines to control ground water levels and reduce water pressure from the ground.
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A timeline of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
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James Hargreaves patented the Spinning Jenny that could make eight times the amount of yarn made from one person
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Samuel Compton had invented this machine by combining the spinning jenny's carriage and the water fram's rollers. This made a single power to spin multiple machines. This had worked with wool or cotton yards.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin to clean large amounts of raw cotton.
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George Stephenson was the first person to build a successful steam-powered train. It was completed and then tested on July 24, 1814
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Samuel Morse invents and tests the telegraph by sending a message from Washington to Baltimore saying "What hath God wrought?"
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Elisha Otis had invented this to prevent people falling off the elevator from a pretty high level and dying. This had made Elias well-known and started making his own elevator industry a year later.
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Alfred Nobel invented dynamite for exploding more holes for mines so they could dig deeper into the Earth to make more profit.
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Axexander Graham Bell patents the telephone or his 'acoustic telegraph'
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Louis Pasteur, a French Biologist invented vaccines that saved millions of lifes in the past and in the present times.
