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American William Church patents the first typesetting machine.
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Benoit Fourneyron develops the water turbine. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, dies at the age of 74.
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Government sets up inspectorate to ensure that the Factory Acts are being adheared to.
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In Texas, the Battle of Alamo occured.
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Grace Darling, daughter of the Farne Islands lighthouse keeper, rescue survivors of the ship Forfarshire.
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First telegraph service setup between Paddington (London) and Slough.
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Start of the Irish Potato Famine. William McNaught invents the compund steam engine.
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Governement pass the Ten-Hour Act. The 70 hour week becomes 5.5 hours.
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Chartists hold Kennington Common meeting, masterminded by Feargus O'Connor.
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Henery Bessemer invents process for making cheap steel from pig iron, in response to call for guns for Crimean War.
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Sir George Cayley constructs the world's first man-carrying glider. He also invented the caterpillar tractor.
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The firsy commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania.
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Road Locomotives Act restricts speed of road vehicles to 5mph. HMS Warrior, first ironclad battleship, launched.
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Start of the American Civil War, cutting off raw cotton.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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Formation of the Rugby Football Union in Britain.
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Alaxander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison creats the indandescent light bulb.
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Creed perfects the Creed Teleprinter for use in newspaper offices.
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The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight.
After long hours of work the Wright Brothers finally created their dream and were the first humans to fly
