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Thomas Newcomen creates the first steam engine
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The silk factory is started by John Lombe
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Cotton clothes were being produced from transported raw cotton
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Bridgewater Canal opens, first one in Britain
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James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny to produce clothing
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James Watt carried out Thomas Newcomen's steam engine and made it more efficient by 60%
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James Watt created a new unit of measurement: the horsepower
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Richard Arkwright created the water frame which attaches the spinning machine to a water wheel
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Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule which combined the process of spinning and weaving
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Henry Cort came up with the idea for a puddling furnace to make iron
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Edmund Cartwright created the power loom
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Edmund Cartwright later created the wool combining machine
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Richard Trevithick built the first working railway locomotive
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Parliament passed a law making destruction of industrial machines punishable by death
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Humphrey Davy and George Stephenson invented safety lamps for minors
