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Jethro Tull's mechanical (seed) sower permits large scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows.
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Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcoal as fuel.
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Thomas Newcomen builds first comercially successuful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power sorce other than wind and water.
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John Kay's flying shuttle.
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First threashing machine.
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Cartwright builds a power loom.
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Robert Threvithick demonstrates a steam locomotive.
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Robert Fulton's Clermont first successful steamboat.
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Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principle of the electric motor.
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Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code. Great Western--first ocean-going steamship.
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Singer inventsfirst practicle sewing machine. Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge.
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Elisha Otis invents the elevator safety brake making skyscapers possible.
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Charles Darwin. The origin os Species. Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania.Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engin.
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Alfred Nobel produces dynamite, the first high explosive which can be safely handled
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Bell invents the telephone
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Benz develops first automobile to run on internal-combustion engin.
