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used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron
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Developed a steam engine powered by coal
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improves the steam engine
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opened and cut the price of coal in Manchester in half
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The Spinning Jenny was invented, spun many threads at the same time
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patented the water frame, which was a spinning machine that could not be powered by water
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invented the cotton gin, separated the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate
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in the early 1800s, middle-class business leaders embraced the "hands-off" approach
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advocated utilitarianism
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began social reforms at New Lanark
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pioneers developed steam-powered locomotives to pull carriages along iron rails
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develops the first successful steamboat, the Clermont
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groups of textile workers resisted the labor-saving machines that were costing them their jobs
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opened; from Liverpool to Manchester
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British lawmakers formed teams of inspectors to ensure that factories and mines obeyed the laws in the 1830s and 1840s
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publish The Communist Manifesto
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railroad travel became faster and railroad building boomed by 1870; rail lines crisscrossed Britain, Europe, and North America
