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First Industrial Revolution
The origins:
-The agrarian revolution
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Invention of the Steam Engine
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Publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
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Invention of the locomotive (George Stephenson)
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Approval of the Enclosure Acts
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Invention of the Bessemer converter (Henry Bessemer)
inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively -
Invention of the telephone (Antonio Meucci)
Meucci devised an electromagnetic telephone as a way of connecting his second-floor bedroom to his basement laboratory, and thus being able to communicate with his wife. -
Invention of the combustion engine
American George Brayton invented the first commercial liquid-fuelled internal combustion engine. -
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Second Industrial Revolution
New sources of energy
New industries
New production system -
Presentation of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
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Invention of the light bulb (Thomes Alva Edison)
Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. -
Presentation of the first automobile (Carl Fredrich Benz)
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Wireless telegraph (Gughelmo Marconi)
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Fight of the Wright Brothers
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Beginning of production of the Ford Model T (Henry Ford)