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Updated: 19 Feb 2024
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Thomas Newcomen invents
the first steam engine. In the
beginning it wasn't very useful,
but the idea of making machines
using steam will become very
useful in the future.James Watt from
Scotland creates
improvements
to the steam engine,
which soon becomes one
of the industrial revolutions
biggest inventionsA British carpenter
named James Hargreaves
creates the spinning jenny
a machine that makes it
quicker and easier to
make clothEli Whitney creates
a machine called the
cotton gin which is a
machine that makes it
easier to separate cotton
seed from cotton fibre, greatly
helping the southern states earn
more money.Aviation pioneers Orville and
Wilbur Wright carry out the first
powered, sustained and controlled
flight on an airplaneAlexander Graham Bell creates the
telephone and telephone lines around the
United States are built very soon afterSamuel Morse invents the telegraph,
allowing messages to be quickly
sent over a wire.A safer way to blast holes
in mountains and the ground is
invented when Alfred Noble creates
dynamite.A chemist named Louis Pasteur
believed that germs led to diseases
and using that information he created
vaccines that helped prevent
countless diseases, increasing
many peoples lifespans.After 13 years of construction,
the Brooklyn Bridge opensElias Howe invents the sewing machine,
making clothes be able to be sewn in large
factories. Before this, clothes were all
sewn by handThomas Edison establishes
the modern age of light by
inventing the incandescent lightbulb.Periods
The public begin opposing to
industrialisation. Factories are
attacked and machinery
is destroyed.The US begin constructing a transcontinelntal
railroad in order to connect
the east coast with the west coast.
Work continues until 1869
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