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Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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    Spinning Jenny

    One hand powered wheel but eight spindles, created by James Hargreaves
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    (Watt) Steam Engine

    The Watt steam engine was used to pump water and was created by James Watt
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    Power Loom

    a mechanized device used to weave cloth and tapestry invented by Edmund Cartwright
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    Steamboat

    A boat that is run by a steam engine and created by Robert Fulton
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    Cotton Gin

    a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds invented by Eli Whitney
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    Locomotive

    a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel and invented by Richard Trevithick
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    Camera

    a device that consists of a lightproof chamber with an aperture fitted with a lens and a shutter invented by Louis Le Prince, Johann Zahn
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    Sewing Machine

    any of various machines for stitching material invented by Elias Howe
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    Telegraph

    a communication system that sends information by making and breaking an electrical connection and created by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone
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    Telephone

    Instrument designed for simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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    Dynamite

    an explosive that is made of nitroglycerin absorbed in a porous material and that often contains ammonium nitrate or cellulose nitrate invented by Alfred Nobel, and Ascanio Sobrero
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    Automobile

    a self-propelled motor vehicle intended for passenger transportation on land and created by Karl Benz, Alexander Wilton, Pierre-Joseph Ravel, Étienne Lenoir, George B. Selden, Arthur Constantin Krebs