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Inventors and Inventions
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- James Hargreaves: spinning jenny (1764)
- Richard Arkwright: water frame, factory system (1769)
- James Watt: improved steam engine (1769)
- Eli Whitney: cotton gin (1793), interchangeable parts
- Robert Fulton: first commercially successful steamboat (1807)
- George Stephenson: first practical steam locomotive, the Rocket (1825)
- Samuel Morse: telegraph (1844)
- Henry Bessemer: Bessemer process for mass-producing steel (1856)
- Alexander Graham Bell: telephone (1876)
- Thomas Edison: incandescent light bulb (1879), electric power
- Henry Ford: assembly line for automobiles (1913)
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