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exchange was established in London in the 1770s; the New York Stock
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Exchange was founded in the early 1790s. In 1776, Scottish social
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philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790), who is regarded as the founder of modern economics, published “The Wealth of Nations”.
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Two Brits, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, patented the first commercial electrical
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Two Brits, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, patented the first commercial electrical
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railways were a Cooke-Wheatstone system
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In the early 1860s, an estimated one-fifth of the workers in Britain’s textile industry were younger than 15.
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a telegraph cable was successfully laid across the Atlantic. A stock
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19th century, as the government instituted various labor reforms and workers gained the right to form trade unions.
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mid-19th century, industrialization was well-established throughout the western part of Europe and America’s
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By the early 20th century, the U.S. had become the world’s leading industrial nation.