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Robert Fulton
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Steamboat: used for transporting people and good more easily.
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Galileo's Telescope: Created by Galileo Galilei.
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The telescope is used to observe the stars, and space in general, up close and more detailed than by the naked eye.
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Eli Whitney
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cotton gin -separated cotton fibers from seed.
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james hargreaves
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the spinning jenny is to spin more than one ball of yarn or thread
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James Watt
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Steam Engine
it provided a relatively cheap transport for a lot of people and heavy produce over long distances. It gave power to machinery and you no longer needed windmills. |
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Charlemagne
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Three field system - it helped them get the crops even if one field were to fail, they would at least have one field that grew crops
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Isaac Newton
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he invented the three laws of gravity which it lead to more research about space and gravity
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Richard Arkwright and John Kay
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Water Frame- it was built to make strong tough yarn and it was quicker than weaving which improved people's lives.
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John Kay
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Flying Shuttle-A new engine machine for opening and dressing wool;An improvement that enabled weavers to weave faster. His house was trashed because of the cause of unemployment that resulted from his invention.
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Marie Curie
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Radium - she discovered it and helped with cancer treatment and improvements in medicine
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Heliocentric Theory - model in which the earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary sun at the center of the solar system.
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Enclosure Act
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Break down of small land holds into a smaller number of larger farms. The wealthy owned the land and kicked the poor farmers off. Led to urbanization.
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Edward Jenner
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Vaccine-prevented people from getting diseases. Less people died.
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Thomas Edison
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Tinfoil phonograph - People were now able to record there own voice.
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