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Thomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor. In 1698, he patented the first crude steam engine.
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James Kay invented the first flying shuttle a device that allowed you to weave and sew quickly.
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Andrew Meikle invented the first threshing machine a device to remove husks from grain.
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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.
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Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, which, after 1800 was powered by new steam engines. Replaced the flying shuttle.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, a machine to separate cotton from seed, and clean cotton from other particles.
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first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.
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Richard Trevithick designed and built the first steam locomotive to run on smooth rails.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire.
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Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. Now clothes can be made in large factories.
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Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures.
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Henry Bessemer invents a process for making steel out of iron. Having a way to make steel more quickly and more cheaply
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Alexander Gram Bell invented the first phone, and the first way for people to speak to each other from long distances.
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Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, which is a safer way to blast holes in mountains or the ground than simply lighting black powder
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A chemist named Louis Pasteur believed that germs caused disease. Using this information, he created vaccines that helped prevent many common diseases, which helped people live longer.
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David Edward Hughes invented a carbon microphone in the 1870s. The first microphone that enabled proper voice telephony
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Not the first man to create a light bulb, Thomas Edison created a light bulb that lasted longer than other designs and showed it off by lighting a lamp. Edison's light bulbs allow people to do many things at night.
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The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. The "Maxim gun" used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire
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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine
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Using an engine that they invented, Orville and Wilbur Wright invent the first plane that is not powered by wind. Orville flies the plane for 12 seconds over a beach in North Carolina.
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Henry Ford creates a type of car called the Model T. It is much cheaper than other cars because it is made on an assembly line, allowing many more people to buy cars.
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