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first steam engine
Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine in 1712 and it was the first modern steam engine -
first cotton spinning factory opened
The first cotton spinning factory was opened. Cotton-spinning machinery refers to machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. -
first steam powered mill began
The first steam powered mill began operation Although some were driven by animal power, most early mills were built in rural locations near to fast-flowing rivers and streams and had water wheels to power them. -
britians first canal
in 1761 britian opened its first canal The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution -
the first rotary steam engine
Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back about 2,000 years. -
richard trevithicks first steam locomotive
Richard Trevithick is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine . -
'luddities' began to destroy machines
The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817 -
britians first passenger steam railway
First commercial use of steam locomotive on the Middleton Railway, It was also the first rail line to be built in any of Britain's West Indies colonies. -
the first great cholera epidemic
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Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire
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Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph
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Telephone invented
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
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Compulsory education for all children is introduced
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first skyscraper was built in chicago
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Karl Benz invented the first automobile
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Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves
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first wireless phone invented
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Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight
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Outbreak of World War I
