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Thomson Newcomen invents the first steam engine
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John Kay invents the Flying Shuttle
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule.
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb.
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Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine.