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1698The steam pump is patented by Thomas Savery.
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1709The first working coke blast furnace is used at the Coalbrookdale works in Shropshire.
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1710Thomas Newcomen develops an improved steam pump.
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1733The flying shuttle is invented by John Kay.
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1737The winnowing machine is invented by Andrew Rogers.
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1760 - 1840The Industrial Revolution in Britain.
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1764The spinning jenny is invented by James Hargreaves.
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1769James Watt patents his development of the steam engine.
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1769The waterframe is invented by Richard Arkwright.
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1770The marine chronometer is invented by John Harrison.
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1779The spinning mule is invented by Samuel Crompton.
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1781The first cast iron bridge is opened. It crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England.
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1784James Watt and Matthew Boulton perfect their development of the steam engine.
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1785The power loom is invented by Edmund Cartwright.
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1787The first steam-powered threshing machine is invented by Andrew Meikle.
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1794 - 174The cotton gin is invented by Eli Whitney.
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1806 - 1859Life of the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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1807Frederick Albert Winsor successfully demonstrates gas street lighting in London.
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1811 - 1816The Luddites, who smashed textile machines, are active in Britain.
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1818The milling machine is invented.
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1821Michael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.
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1824Portland cement, a fast-setting cement, is invented by Joseph Aspdin.
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1825 - 1843Construction of the Thames Tunnel.
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1825The self-acting mule is invented by Richard Roberts.
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27 Sep 1825The Locomotion 1 train invented by George Stephenson (1781-1848) transports the first railway passengers from Stockton to Darlington.
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1829Isambard Kingdom Brunel submits four designs for Clifton Suspension Bridge, one is accepted.
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Oct 1829Stephenson's Rocket locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials to become the engine for the Liverpool to Manchester railway line.
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1830 - 1832The Swing Riots sees agricultural machines smashed in Britian.
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1837William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone first patent the electrical telegraph.
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1837The telegraph machine is invented by William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone.
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1838The Great Western Railway line from Bristol to London opens.
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1838Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Western is launched.
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1839The steam hammer is invented by James Nasmyth.
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1840The Temple Meads railway station in Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens.
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1841The railway line connecting London to Birmingham opens.
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19 Jul 1843Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Britain is officially launched at Bristol.
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24 May 1844Samuel Morse uses his morse code electrical telegraph for the first time.
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1845The railway line from London to Manchester opens.
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May 1851 - 15 Oct 1851The Great Exhibition is held in London's Crystal Palace.
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1854Paddington Station in London, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens.
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1856the Bessemer converter is invented by Henry Bessemer.
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1858Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Eastern is launched.
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Jun 1860SS Great Eastern makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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1866The SS Great Eastern lays the first transatlantic electrical telegraph cable.
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1873Laws of electromagnetism defined by James Clerk Maxwell.