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The dictionary helps increased the literacy rate throughout the English speaking countries of the world.
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This sighting device was used to calculate the elevation of a celestial body over the horizon and thereby determine one's line of position. By knowing this sailors could then calculate exact latitude and longitude at sea.
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This clock becomes crucial to seaferrers as it gives navigators the ability to read longitude with a simple device.
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Although the Spinning Jenny could spin multiple threads at once, this new machine span much faster using water power and allowed the textile industry to boom.
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This shows the beginning of the industrial revolution move to use technology to ease a task and allowed people to spin multiple threads at the same time.
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Priestly's work in chemistry inspired many other scientists to make strives in this field around the globe and also showed the carbonation process of fluids.
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Enabled the first use long distance communications to organize people around the world. This was initially used in underwater telegraph cables which organized the navies of world powers.
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This invention greatly improved on the sanitation of urban areas and marked the steps towards a modern society.
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Previously, steam travel was very costly reserved mainly to water travel and aristocratic use, but with this improved stam engine, steam travel emerged as prominet travel source.
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This innovation mixed the best parts of the Jenny and the Water Frame further moving along the textile industry.
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Although having a few issues upon its first release, this spinning machine was much easier to use and span faster than the machines before it. Later it would be used predominantly world-wide.
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This gin separated cotton seeds from the actual cotton fibres which normally took too long. This created the cotton business essentially as cotton became easier to produce.
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With smallpox being one of the deadliest killers in Europe and the Americas, this vaccine most likely saved millions of lives around the world.
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This was the first paddle steamship in the world and introduced the world to water travel using steam power. Although this was very cost ineffective, it would later be improved.
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Reduced the dependence on candles and gas powered lighting in homes. Later improved by Edison, this started the idea of different forms of energy.
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This innovation/landmark even exemplifies the importance of steam power in transportation during this time.
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This new technology shows the complete shift to electrical power in practical uses and the battery became a staple in society throughout history.
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This innovation paved the way for the creation of much taller builidings as it became easier to transport people up numerous floors. It is still used in modern day society.
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This event marked the beginning of more modern warfare as fully automatic weapons dominated the battlefield. Ammo cartriges made weapons easier to load, more accurate, and overall much more deadly.
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This improved on the idea of the telegraph that could only transmitt short messages through a morde code but this allowed for more detailed messages to be sent. Also it was a more practical device that allowed the average people to communicate with one another.
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More of a landmark than an innovation, this call showed the great strides made over this age. It marked the beginning of the use of the telephone and modern communication.
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Before this century, Electrical Power was way too expensive for everyday use but after Edison's innovations, electrical power was used practically as a major source of power
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Not depending on fire for light, allowed people to work at night without the fear of catching their paper or straw houses on fire. It revolutionized world.
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Not only did Tesla discover the rotating magnetic field concept (a key idea to physics) his A-C induction motor ran very efficiently and is still used in industrial and household devices today.
