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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill which allows farmers to plant seeds in well organized and spaced rows and at certain depths.
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle which quickly carries threads of yarn back and forth on wheels for weavers.
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James Watt creates the first steam engine which worked faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.
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Karl Marx and Engels publish the Communist Manifesto staing their ideas of how society is divided into rich and poor classes and that the poor class will take over and create an equal country, and the public will own everything.
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The Civil War ends with the Union winning which freed all slaves on US soil. It also creates a technological boom because more land and resources are accecible in the US. Many inventions were also created such as the light bulb.
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Industrialization starts in Germany in the Ruhr Valley, many people brought mill ideas in from England and railroads were built, and the economy strengthened, making Germany a leading Industrialized country.
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Disobeying the Combinations Act, unions striked causing parliement to finally repeal the act and allow unions to strike, which led to unions and their strikes to convince parliement to give laborerers more freedom in factories.