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Industrial Revolution
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Enclosures of farming land accelerate in Britain
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Edmond Cartwright invents the power loom
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
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Richard Arkward Invents the water frame
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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James Watt invents the steam engine to drive machinery
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Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron
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First fleet arrive at Botany Bay
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First Textile factory built in USA
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George Stephanson develops the rocket, a working locomotive
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Gas street lighting common in Britain
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Brunels steam ship the Great Western cross' the Atlantic
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Samuel Morse sends first successful telegraph message
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US warships visit Japan
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Bessemer process enables mass production of steel
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Suez Canal opens
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Overland telegraph connects Australia to Asia
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Alexender Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Unification accelarates industrization of Germany
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Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light bulb
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Eiffle tower completed in France
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Wright Brothers invent modern flight
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Trans-Siberian railway accelarates russian industrialisation
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Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford
