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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The water frame by Richard Arkwright
By Richard Arkwright
The water frame was the first fully automatic and continuously operating spinning machine -
First Iron Bridge by Michael Angelo Rooker
By Michael Angelo Rooker -
The steam locomotive by Richard Trevithick
By Richard Trevithick
The steam locomotive was an application of the steam engine that Watt himself had once dismissed as impractical -
The telegraph by William Fothergill Cooke
By William Fothergill Cooke
The first practical electric telegraph systems -
Electric railways by Werner von Siemens
By Werner von Siemens
The first electric railway, intended for use in urban mass transit -
The automobile by Daimler and Karl Benz
By Daimler and Karl Benz
The first motorcycle and motorcar powered by an internal-combustion engine