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This is what trade was like all through the industrial revolution
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A global military war between 1756 - 1763, involving most of the big groups of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India and the Philippines
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People carried coal through these canals to get it places faster and easier
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Arkwright makes a water powered weft ( the crosswise threads on a loom that are passed over and under the warp threads to make cloth, in weaving).
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Bridgewater extended to the Mersey in doing so connecting Liverpool. Extremely successful, extensive canal construction.
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Samuel Crompton, created a hybrid machine to meet the needs of factories in the industrial Revolution it was able to spin more yarn than ever.
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Grand trunk canal establishes a route across England connecting the Mersey to the Trent and connecting the industrial Midlands and Bristol, Liverpool and Hull.
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Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes demonstrates their untethered manned hot air balloon in Paris in a balloon created by Montgolfier brother
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James Watts steam engine changed transport to be cheap and affordable
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Links up with the Bristol channel
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Thomas Telford makes two great iron aqueducts that go over the Dee and Ceiriog valleys. ( Aqueducts; Man made water channel used for conveying water, usually in the form of a bridge across a valley or other gap's.)
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Robert Fulton built the first successful steam boat in history.
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Robert Trevithick demonstrates his steam locomotive
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Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principle of the electric motor
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Caledonia Ship Canal cuts clear through Scotland via the Great Glen
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Marc makes a tunneling shield making subaqueous (existing, formed, or taking place under water.) tunneling possible.
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This canal connects Sharpness to Gloucester
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The railway begins it's first commercial rail services
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He discovers electro-magnetic current, making it possible to make generators and electric engines
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The first subaqueous tunnel was under the Thames.
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Was the first large, iron, screw-propelled steamship in Britain
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He demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
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A huge suspension bridge built by father and son (Roebling's)
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Develops the first automobile to run on internal, combustion engine
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He makes diesel fuel
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The first Zeppelin airship was designed by Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
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On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made four brief flights at kitty hawk their first powered aircraft
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The hybrid care was made in the U.S and became a complete failure because no one would buy it
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Henry Ford mass-produces the model T
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The titanic sank when she crashed into a iceberg taking 1500 passengers down to the bottom with her, only 700 survived
