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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill which is a machine that precisely positions seeds in the soil and then covers them.
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle which is a machine tha allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics.
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James Watt built the first steam engine which was a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working period.
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Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto which was a book that presented an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
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The U.S. civil war ends and The United States experiences a technological boom with many new ideas and inventions.
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Germany becomes dominant industrial power in Europe after Britain and most of the other countries industrialize.
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The Britihs Unions win the right to strike after they took strike for unfair working conditions, etc.
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