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Agricultural Revolution begins (Britain)
It changed agricultural practices. It included expansion of farmland , good weather, improved transportation, and abundant new crops icreased food supply. -
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore (Britain)
iron replaces wood and charcoal as fuel -
Thomas Newcomen builts the first working steam engine
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. -
James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
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James Watt enables the steam engine to drive machinery (Britain)
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. -
Henry Cort develops the process of puddling
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 -
Edmund Cartwright invents the water-powered loom
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. -
Richard Trevithick builds the first steam locomotive
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. -
Robert Fulton builds the first paddle-wheel steamboat (United States)
Steamboats made transportation easier on the waterways of the United States -
Henry Bessemer improves the manufacturing of steel
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. -
Railroads are set in the United States
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. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb (United States)
Apart from Edison, Joseph Swan in Great Britain also created the lightbulb. -
Guglielmo Marconi send te first radio waves across the Atlantic Ocean
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Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first flight in a fixed-wing plane
Later in 1919, the first regular passenger air service was established. -
Hydroelectric power stations and steam-generating plants connected homes and factories to a common power source
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.
