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Cheaper and easier method to produce cast iron
Using a coke-fueled furnace
By Abraham Darby (1678-1717) -
First practical steam engine
By Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729) -
Invention of the spinning jenny
By James Hargreaves (1722-1778) -
Use of steam machine to power machinery
By James Watt (1736-1819) -
Invention of the power loom
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Invention of the telegraph
By Claude Chappe (1763-1805) -
Invention of the Stephenson's rocket
A revolutionary steam locomotive
By Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) -
Invention of photography
By Jacques Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) -
First inexpensive process for mass-producing steel
By Henry Bessemer (1813-1898)