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Way to plant more efficiently. -
first practical fuel-burning engine -
Arkwright developed a spinning machine for cotton. This then developed into the creation of the factory system. -
the experiments of the Scottish engineer James Watt led to the development of the first commercially practical condensing steam engine (1769). -
GDP represents the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced (and sold on the market) -
Henry Cort discovered the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron -
revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber -
World's first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton's boat made its first run in August 1807 on the Hudson River. -
first ever lockstitch sewing machine in the world -
Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. -
Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. -
First synthetic plastic