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1696 Savery invented a steam-driven water pump |
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1701 Tull developed the seed drill |
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1705 Newcomen made a successful steam engine |
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1709 Darby used coke to make pig iron |
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1712 Newcomen made an atmospheric steam engine |
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1730 Townsend introduced Four Year Crop Rotation |
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1733 Kay invented the Flying Shuttle |
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1730's Turnpike roads are constructed |
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1740 Huntsman 'rediscovered' steel |
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1755 Bakewell experimented with selective breeding |
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1754 First iron rolling mill is opened |
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1764 Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny |
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1764 Watt invented the internal condenser |
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1766 Cavendish produced nitrates from nitrogen gas |
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1769 Watt improved on Newcomen's steam engine |
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1760's Darby laid an iron plateway |
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1762 Boulton opened an ironworks in Birmingham |
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1769 Cugnot invented a steam propelled vehicle |
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1771 Arkwright opened a mill at Cromford |
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1772 Coke began his breeding experiments |
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1779 Crompton developed the Spinning Mule |
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1775 Wilkinson bored cylinders for Watt's engine |
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1779 Abraham Darby III built the first iron bridge |
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1781 Watt developed the compound steam engine |
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1782 Tull's seed drill is improved by adding gears |
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1783 Arkwright's Masson Mill opened |
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1784 Small developed an iron plough |
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1785 Cartwright's steam power loom in use |
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1786 Boulton used steam to power his coin factory |
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1786 Meikle developed a threshing machine |
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1788 Boulton used a rotary steam engine in his factory |
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1789 Jessop used flanged waggon wheels |
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1783 d'Abbans steamship Pyroscaphe launched |
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1783 Cort invented the "puddling process" |
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1786 Murdock developed a road steam vehicle |
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1790 Arkwright's steam-powered factory opens |
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1792 Whitney invented the cotton gin |
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1804 Jaquard used a punch card for weaving |
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1805 Wandsworth-Croydon public railway opened |
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1806 Oystermouth passenger railway opened |
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1808 Trevithick's "Catch -Me-Who-Can" locomotive is built |
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1801 Trevithick's passenger steam vehicle |
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1802 Symington's Charlotte Dundas steamship |
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1803 Fulton's steam-driven boat used on the Seine |
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1804 Steven's used a twin-screw propeller steamboat |
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1807 Fulton's steam paddleship, the Clermont |
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1812 Blenkinsop's railway locomotive operated |
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1813 Horrocks invented the speed batton |
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1813 Hedley's "Puffing Billy" used on a non-toothed track |
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1810 Macadam developed a new type of road construction |
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1812 First horse-drawn bus system operated |
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1812 The steamship Comet operated on the Clyde |
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1815 Telford's London to Holyhead road constructed |
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1819 The steamship Savannah crossed the Atlantic |
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1820 Wrought iron rails used to make railways |
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1825 Stockton to Darlington railway line opened |
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1827 First railway tunnel built under Liverpool |
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1829 Stephenson's "Rocket" won the Rainhill trials |
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1829 Sequin built the first French steam locomotive |
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1820 The steamship James Watt was launched |
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1822 The first iron steamship, Aaroon Manby launched |
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1827 Dr. Gurney's steam coach operated |
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1828 Neilson improved blast furnace construction |
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1832 First steam locomotive railway in France is built |
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1835 Locke designed bulkhead rail |
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1839 Nasmyth invented the steam hammer |
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1836 Ericsson and Smith development the screw propeller |
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1837 Brunel's steamship Great Western launched |
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1846 Standard gauge adopted for British railways |
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1840 Cunard shipping line opened |
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1843 Brunel's steamship Great Britain launched |
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1845 Brunel's steamship Great Britain crossed the Atlantic |
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1847 Cunard provide a regular cross-Atlantic service |
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1854 Elder invented the double steam engine |
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1856 Bessemer developed the basic oxygen converter |
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1858 Brunel's Great Eastern launched |
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1863 First underground railway |
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1860 Lenoir's gas engine used in road vehicles |
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1861 Véloe's péde bicycle introduced |
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1879 Von Seimen's electric train operated in Berlin |
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1870 Penny farthing bicycles introduced |
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1876 Otto's four stroke engine developed |
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1879 Gilchrist and Thomas adapted Bessemer's process |
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1881 First electric passenger train used in Germany |
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1881 Elder developed the triple expansion engine |
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1885 Benz's petrol-driven motorwagen developed |
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1890 First underground electric train operates |
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1890 Rubber tyres used on bicycles |
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1894 Elder developed the quadruple expansion engine |
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1895 Michelin Brothers used air-filled tyres on cars |
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1898 Motorised omnibuses used in Britain |
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1899 Gear boxes used in Benz's cars |
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1912 First diesel trains operate in Sweden |
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