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steam engine was evented
the steam engine was evented to pump water from coal mines -
spinning mule
the spinning mule made it easier to produce cotton yarn and thread. -
crude power loom
Edmund Cartwright invents a crude power loom for weaving process. -
William Murdock (James Watt's assistant) lights his home with coal gas.
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Thomas Telford builds his two great iron aqueducts, over the Dee and the Cierog valleys.
thomas telford was know for his building of canals,roads and bridges -
Fox Talbot introduces photographic paper.
William discovered how to make and fix images through the action of light and chemistry on paper. -
The impact of industrialisation and creation of cities leads to a cholera epidemic across towns in Britain.
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New law prohibited boys from climbing chimneys to clean them.
New law prohibited boys from climbing chimneys to clean them. -
Bell invents the telephone.
Alexander invented the telephone in 1876 -
World War One changes the industrial heartlands, with foreign markets setting up their own manufacturing industries. The golden age of British industry has come to an end.