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Samual Slater arrives in the U.S. with plans to a textile mill
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Eli Whitney applies for a patent for the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney did a demonstration for the U.S. congress to convince them about "interchangeable parts"
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Robert Fulton's steamboat makes its first commercial voyage
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Construction begins on the on the National Road
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Work begins on the Erie Canal
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The first mill is opened in the factory town of Lowell
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Erie Canal construction is finished
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Samuel Morse recieves a patent for his telegraph
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Elias Howe recieves a patent for his design of a sewing machine
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The first labor union, called the National Labor Union, was formed in the U.S.
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The first permanent trans-Atlantic cable was completed
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The "Golden Spike Ceremony" completes the building of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill opened in the U.S.
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The first telephone patent in the U.S. was issued to Alexander Graham Bell
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The first electric light bulb patent in the U.S. was issued to Thomas Edison
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The Great Southwest Railroad Strike occured
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The first gasoline-powered automobile in the U.S. was made
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The first sucessful airplane flight in the U.S. was copleted by the Wright Brothers
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Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in his auto planet