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Inventors and Inventions

  • 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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