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T. Newcomen's steam engine
Combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of lifting water out of a tin mine -
John Kay's flying shuttle
production tool that allowed cotton to be woven faster than by hand. -
James Watt's steam engine
It was the first practical steam engine. He invented a pumping appliance that used steam to draw water directly from a well. -
James Hargreaves' spinning jenny
The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. -
Richard Arkwright's water mill
The machine could spin large quantities of cotton yarn -
Samuel Crompton's spinning mile
was a combination of the Spinning Jenny and the water frame taking in a single machine -
Edmund Cartwright's power loom
was a mechanized device designed to automate the weaving process. -
Robert Fulton's steamboat
it made transportation and trade by the river more easy. -
Luddites opposed machines in textile industry
In Nottinghamshire, they protested against wage reductions. Workers sent threatening letters to employers and broke into factories to destroy the new machine -
Transcontinental railroad
Was a train route across the United States. Is a network of railways that crosses a continental land mass. -
Edison Light bulb
Is an electric device that produces light -
The first skyscraper built in Chicago
In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building -
First moving picture
it was a sequence of images of a horse galloping -
Invention of the radio
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi became known across the world as the most successful inventor in applying radio waves to human communication in the 1890s -
Wright brothers' first flight
ere successful in flying an airplane they built. They needed two attempts. -
First plastics
Belgian chemist and clever marketeer Leo Baekeland pioneered the first fully synthetic plastic -
Henry Ford's model T started producing
he vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car. -
Beginning of the WW1
World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.