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Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine. It is not very useful yet, but the idea of using steam to make machines go will be important to the Industrial Revolution
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James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invents the spinning jenny. The machine spins more than one ball of yarn or thread at a time, making it easier and faster to make cloth.
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Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame. The spinning frame is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way.
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James Watt from Scotland designs a more efficient steam engine. One of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, steam engines power the first trains, steamboats, and factories.
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David Ricardo created The Ricardian theory of international trade. It is called by the modern bourgeois economists the theory of comparative advantage.
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule. The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere.
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Edmund Cartwright created the power loom. It dramatically changed the way cloth was woven by making it much easier.
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Eli Whitney creates a machine that makes it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. It greatly reduces the time it takes to clean cotton and helps the southern states make more money from cotton crops
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Alessandro Volta built one of the first electric batteries. An electric battery is a device consisting of two or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy.
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Jeremy Bentham, best known for his work in utilitarianism. This ideology of utilitarianism focused on the greater good for the greatest number of people.
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At a time when people had to make their own clothes at home or pay someone else to sew them by hand, Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. Now clothes can be made in large factories.
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Cyrus Field was an american financier noted for the success of the first transatlantic cable .A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications.
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North Korea crosses the 38th parallel invading South Korea
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US announces in UN its goal of a unified, anti-Communist Korea.
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Truman declares a state of national emergency
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Truman dismisses MacArthur from command
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US air attack on Pyongyang.
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Peace Treaty signed at Panmunjom. 38th parallel reset as boundary between communist North and anti-communist South. Cold War tensions continue unabated
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Robert Fulton was credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont.
