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John Kay invents the Flying Shuttle
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James Watt invents the first steam engine
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Adam Smith coins "capitalism"
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Jeremy Bentham coins "utilitarianism"
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U.S. declares war on Great Britain
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Factory Bill banns hiring of children under 9
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Charles Fourier coins "Socialism" in France
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Slavery abolished in Great Britain
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SAmuel F. B. Morse invents language of communication for telegraph
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the name "Industrial Revolution" is coined by Arnold Toynbee, a frenchman
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Elias Howe invents the first sewing machine
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Karl Marx and his "Communist Manifesto" coin communism
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
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Jane Addams founds the Hull House in Chicago
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Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first functioning airplane
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The Womens' Social and Political Union was formed
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Henry Ford invents the first car; the Model T Ford
