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steam engine
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
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Richard Arkwright patents the water frame
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James Watt patents a series of improvements on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient
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Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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Eli Whitney patenets the cotton gin
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Robert Fulton begins steamboat service on the Hudson River.
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George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London
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Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph
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Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service
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Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter
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The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania
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The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace
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Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic cable.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb
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Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless
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The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight
