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Abraham Darby used coal to smelt iron
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Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine powered by coal
The steam engine was used to pump water out of mines. -
The Bridgewater Canal was open
The canal cut the price of coal in Manchester in half. -
James Watt began making the steam engine more effiecient
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James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny
It could spin many threads at once -
Richard Arkwright invented the waterframe
The waterframe was a spinning machine powered by water -
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
The cotton gin separated the seeds from the raw cotton which allowed cotton production to increase -
Thomas Malthus published "An Essay on the Principle of Population"
He states that poverty is unavoidable, because population increased faster than the food supply -
Factory Acts were passed
The acts reduced a child's workday -
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Industrial riots occurred in England
Luddites resisted the machines that were costing them their jobs -
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20,000 people visit New Lanark to study Robert Owen's reforms
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World's first rail line
It went from Liverpool to Manchester -
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Teams of inspectors ensures factories and mines obeyed Factory Acts
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Marx and Engels wrote "The Communist Manuscript"
Marx predicted a struggle between social classes that would lead to a classless society. -
Rail lines are all over Britain, Europe, and North America
