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- 1712 – first steam engine is invented
- hungry
- we are now hiring
- zzz
- 1757 – British victory in the Battle of Plassey
- zzz
- well done boys
- we only have carrots
- 1764 – Invention of the Spinning Jenny
- ouch my hand
- In 1712 Newcomen invented the world's first successful atmospheric steam engine. The engine pumped water using a vacuum created by condensed steam. It became an important method of draining water from deep mines and was therefore a vital component in the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
- 1771 – Richard Arkwright opens his first factory at Cromford
- Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah at Plassey in 1757 and captured Calcutta. The battle was preceded by an attack on British-controlled Calcutta by Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah and the Black Hole massacre.
- 1789 – Samuel Slater leaves for America.
- he Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, a cotton weaver, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. He invented the first successful multi-spindle spinning machine. The early jennies were awkward to operate, and required considerable skill.
- 1794 – ELI WHITNEY PATENTS THE COTTON GIN
- In 1771 the three men set up a large water powered mill factory on the banks of the River Derwent in Cromford, Derbyshire. Arkwright's machine now became known as the Water-Frame. It is the world's first successful water powered cotton powered spinning wheel
- In 1789, Slater emigrated to the United States. He dreamed of making a fortune by helping to build a textile industry. He did so covertly: British law forbade textile workers to share technological information or to leave the country.
- Designed to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney's cotton gin, for which he received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced a new, profitable technology to agricultural production in America. The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber.
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