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It changed agricultural practices. It included expansion of farmland , good weather, improved transportation, and abundant new crops icreased food supply.
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iron replaces wood and charcoal as fuel
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He created the first commercially successful steam engine that was oringinally built to pump water out of mines. Not as well known for the development of the steam engine as James Watt, who later improved Newcomen's model.
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made the spinning process much faster
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After improving the steam engine in 1775, he enabled the steam engine to drive machinery so that steam power could be used to spin and weave cotton - many cotton mills throughout Britain had steam engines.
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a process in which coke, which was derived from coal, was used to burn away impurities in crude iron, called pig iron, and to produce high-quality iron. - Iron industry boomed
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invention made it possible for the weaving of cloth to catch up with the spinning of thread. It was more efficient to locate factories near rivers or streams to power the new machines.
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locomotive ran on an industrial rail line in Britain. They became an important mean of moving resources and goods quickly and efficiently. Later developed the Rocket which could move faster and pull heavier weights.
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Steamboats made transportation easier on the waterways of the United States
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He patented a new process for making high-quality steel efficiently and cheaply known as the Bessemer process. Steel manufacturing was cheaper than iron and was used to build lighter, smaller, and faster machines and engines, railways, ships, and weapons.
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Around 48,270 km of railroad track covered the continental United States. Helped transform the country into a very large single market for the manufactured goods produced in the Northeast.
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Apart from Edison, Joseph Swan in Great Britain also created the lightbulb.
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Later in 1919, the first regular passenger air service was established.
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Electricity was easily converted into energy forms such as heat, light, and motion, and moved easily though wires. The first practical generators of electrical currents were developed in the 1870s.
