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Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod during this time
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1764
James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invents the spinning jenny. The machine spins more than one ball of yarn or thread at a time, making it easier and faster to make cloth. -
James Watt from Scotland designs a more efficient steam engine. One of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, steam engines power the first trains, steamboats, and
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David Bushnell invents a submarine
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John Fitch invents a steamboat
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Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. At a time when people had to make their own clothes at home or pay someone else to sew them by hand, Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. Now clothes can be made in large factories.
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John Barber invented the gas turbine.
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Eli Whitney creates a machine that makes it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. It greatly reduces the time it takes to clean cotton and helps the southern states make more money from cotton crops
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
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Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
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1844
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire. By 1860, telegraph wires stretch from the east coast of the United States west of the Mississippi River. -
J P Knight invents traffic lights
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Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher
