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The British Industrial Revolution
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| Themes:
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Coal | Coal mining | Coke | Factory | Industrial unrest | Industry | Iron | Machinery | Metallurgy | Steam power |
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| Steel | Textiles | Water power | Workforce
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| People:
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Richard Arkwright | Thomas Boulsover | James Brindley | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Edmund Cartwright |
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| Henry Cort | Samuel Crompton | Abraham Darby | Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater | James Hargreaves |
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| Thomas Highs | Benjamin Huntsman | Joseph Marie Jacquard | Thomas Johnson (dressing frame) |
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| John Kay (Flying Shuttle) | John Kay (Spinning Frame) | Francis Cabot Lowell | Thomas Newcomen |
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| Richard Roberts | Thomas Savery | John Smeaton | George Stephenson | Robert Stephenson | Thomas Telford |
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| Richard Trevithick | James Watt
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| Places:
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet | Bridgewater Canal | Coalbrookdale | Cromford | Derwent Valley Mills | Ironbridge |
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| Quarry Bank Mill | Soho Foundry | Stockton and Darlington Railway
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Inventions/
Technology:
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Blast furnace | Canal | Cotton mill | Crucible steel | Dressing frame | Factory | Flying Shuttle |
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| Newcomen steam engine | Power loom | Railway | Sheffield plate | Spinning Frame | Spinning Jenny | Steam engine |
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| Stephenson's Rocket | Water Frame
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| Reference:
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History of science and technology | History of the British canal system | List of United Kingdom-related topics |
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| Timeline of clothing and textiles technology | Timeline of invention | Timeline of steam power
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