Industrial Revolution

joe T. (United States of America)
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  1. industrial
    of or relating to commercial enterprise
  2. revolution
    a single complete turn
  3. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  4. entrepreneur
    someone who organizes a business venture
  5. rotation
    the act of turning as if on an axis
  6. crop
    a cultivated plant that is grown commercially
  7. textile
    artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting fibers
  8. England
    a division of the United Kingdom
  9. Samuel Morse
    United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
  10. Alexander Graham Bell
    United States inventor of the telephone
  11. Robert Fulton
    American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
  12. James Watt
    Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
  13. George Stephenson
    English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
Created on Mon Jun 01 13:05:08 EDT 2009

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