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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Newcomen Steam Engine
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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Richard Arkwright patents the water frame. ◦James Watt patents a series of improvements on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient.
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Eli Whitney patenets the cotton gin.
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Robert Fulton begins steamboat service on the Hudson River
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George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London.
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Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph
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Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service.
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Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter.
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The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania.
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Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic cable.
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The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace
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Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb.
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Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine.
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless.
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The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight
