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Many credit Derby’s John Lombe with his five storey red brick silk mill, completed in 1721
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James Watt invented the first practical steam engine in 1763
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The ‘Spinning Jenny’ was an engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves,
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Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine
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Richard Trexithick's locomotive carried 10 tones of iron
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first perminent photo
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The first electric generator was invented by Michael Faraday in 1831
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone successfully demonstrated the first electrical telegraph
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Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, in the 1860s.
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William Burt, an American inventor, patented the first typewriter which he called a ‘typographer’.