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The steam engine helped the loom industry very much. Although James Watt designed the first steam engine, the idea originally came from Thomas Newcomen. With the use of the steam engine people didn't need to do as much work and it was less expensive.
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A steamboat was launched on Delaware River. The steamboat was invented and designed by John Fitch. The sailing was presented to the Constitutional members.
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Samuel Slater installs copied spinning machines at his mill in Rhode Island. George Washinton is elected president of U.S.A. Richard Arkwright helped Slater. Arkwright was the inventer of the spinning frame. In Pawtucket, RI Slater installed it on the Blackstone River.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
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The first telegraph was invented in Paris. Invented by Claude Chappe. The telegraph was used to send long distance messages.
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The first vacciination against smallpox, by Edward Jenner in England. This saved some people from dying.
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The first submarine is built by Robert Flulton in America.
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John Dalton introduces atomic theory to chemistry. This helped people learn things about the world.
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Luddites(unemployed cottage textile workers in England) riot against new textile machines.
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Francis Lowell opens his modern textile factory in Massachusetts, using designs for machines copied from Bristish factories.
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The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
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The Sockton-to-Darlington passenger railroad line is opened in England.
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographs.
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Charles Baddage invents a mechanical computing machine, the world's fisrt computer. The first American steam train is in operation in Maryland.
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Induction that is essential in making electric motors.
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A telegraph is invented that carries messages nearly two miles!
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The first efforts to propel railroad vehicles using electric batteries is attempted. Great Britan has more than 120,000 power looms in operation.
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Samuel Morse demonstrates the electric telegraph. A telegraph is like a phone.
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Carl August Steinhall invented it in Germany.
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Telegraph messages are sent between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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Drury Lane Theatre is the first to use gas in England.
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The first practical battery fo storing electricity is used.
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Invented by Gottlieb Daimler in Central Europe
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The completion of the first transatlic telegraph cable.
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Alexander Bell patents the telephone, in Boston, Macachusetts. On valentines day!!<3
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Thomas Edison invents the photograph.
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A company in San Francisco, California build the first centralized power plant for generating electricity.
