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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Enclosures of farming land accelerated in Britain
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James hargreaves invents spinning jenny
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Richard Arkwright invents the water frame
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinery
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Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron
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Edmund Cartwright, Power loom
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First Fleet in Botany Bay
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First Textilefactory in USA
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George Stephenson, The rocket - a working locomotive
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Gas street ligting common in Britain
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Brunel's stramship, the Great Western, crosses atlantic
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Samuel Morse, first successful telegraph mssage
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US warships visit Japan
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Bassemer process enables mass production of steel
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Suez Canal opens
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Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany
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Overland Telegraph connects Australia to Asia
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Alexander Graham Bell, Telephone
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Thomas Edison, First reliable electric light bulb
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Eifel Tower completed in France
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Wroght brothers invent modern Flight
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trans-Siberian railway accelerates Russian industrialisation
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Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford