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Timeline of the Industrial Revolution
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Enclosures of Farming Land Accelerate in Britain.
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James Hargreaves Invents the Spinning Jenny.
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Samuel Crompton Invents the Spinning Mule.
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Samuel Crompton Invents the Spinning Mule.
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James Watt Invents a Steam Engine to Drive Machinery.
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Henry Cort Invents Pudding to Produce Rough Iron.
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Edmund Cartwright invents the Power Loom.
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First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
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First Textile factory built in the USA
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George Stephenson develops the 'Rocket,' a working locamotive.
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Gas street lighting common in Britain.
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Brunel's steam ship 'the great western' crosses the Atlantic.
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Samuel Morse sends first successful telegraph message.
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US warships visit Japan.
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Bessemer process enables mass production of steel.
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Suez Canal opens.
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Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany.
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Overland telegraph connects Australia to Asia.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric lightbulb.
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Eiffel Tower completed in France.
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Wright Brothers invent modern flight.
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Trans-Siberian railway accelerates Russian industrialisation.
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Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford.
