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Wedgwood begins manufacturing pottery
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Hargreaves invents Spinning Jenny, James Watt builds improved steam train
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James Watt invents
first rotative engine -
Eli Watt’s cotton gin
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First steam engine railroad built by Stevenson, First camera
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First mechanical
reaper -
Morse sends first telegraphic message between Washington and Baltimore
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Great exhibition opens in London’s Crystal Palace
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Singer Sewing Machine invented
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India’s first cotton mill built
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Mass production of steel invented
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First commercial refrigeration
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Construction of the London Underground Rail system begins
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Beginning of Meiji Period in Japan and the great leap forward in industrialisation
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Japan’s first telegraph line is laid
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Overland telegraph links South Australia with Darwin in north
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Telephone system developed by Alexander Graham Bell
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Internal combustion engine developed in Germany
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Edison invents the electric light
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First electric trams, Germany
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Sunshine Harvester developed in Victoria
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First automobile developed by Daimler and Benz
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First railroad in China opened
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Wireless telegraph invented by Marconi
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Electric trams begin running in Brisbane
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Cable
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Wright Brothers make first aeroplane flight
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Sydney gets electric street lighting
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Henry Ford produces the first model T Ford
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Harry Houdini flies first plane
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Francis Birtles crosses Australia in automobile
