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The Industrial Revolution transformed largely rural, agrarian societies in Europe and America into industrialized, urban ones.
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The Watt engine, like the Newcomen engine, operated on the principle of a pressure difference created by a vacuum on one side of the piston to push the steam piston down. However, Watt's steam cylinder remained hot at all times. James Watt developed the design sporadically from 1763 to 1775 with support from Matthew Boulton.
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The ‘Spinning Jenny’ was an engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. This intermittent spinning machine operated in two stages: first it stretched and twisted the thread and, after a pause, wound it onto the spindle.
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The French Revolution lasted 10 years. It began on July 14, 1789 when revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastille.
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The Enlightenment was a primarily European cultural and intellectual movement, was especially active in France, England and Germany.
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was a British writer, a lot of people consider him the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
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The Liberal Revolution was a period of three years in the modern history of Spain between 1820 and 1823, when a liberal government ruled Spain after a military uprising in January 1820
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Generators don't actually create electricity. Instead, they convert mechanical or chemical energy into electrical energy. They do this by capturing the power of motion and turning it into electrical energy by forcing electrons from the external source through an electrical circuit. The first electric generator was invented by Michael Faraday in 1831.
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish novelist. He is considered one of the best representatives of the realistic novel.
