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Updated: 14 Dec 2021
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Created byMorgan James Carrasco
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James Watt improves of the steam engineJames Hargreaves patents the spinning jennyThomas Newcomen invents the first steam engineRichard Roberts invents the automatic muleSamuel Crompton invents the spinning muleRichard Arkwright uses Watt's steam for textile mills (pioneering the modern factory system)Samuel Slater establishes the first successful cotton mill in the United States (using a version of Arkwright's machinery)Edmund Cartwright invents an early version of the power loomEli Whitney invents the cotton ginWilliam and John Cockeril bring the industrial revolution to Belgium, developing machine shops at Liege.Luddites (those against industrialization) destroy textile machinery in protest of losing jobs.Cyrus McCormick patents the mechanical reaperElias Howe patents his sewing machineEdwin Drake completes the drilling of the first productive oil well in the United States (Pennsylvania).
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