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329440402	George Stephenson	Built the first steampowered locomotive.	0
329440403	Robert Fulton	Built the first steamship in the 1820s.	1
329440404	Eli Whitney	Invented the cotton gin, thereby allowing massive amounts if cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe.	2
329440405	The Telegraph	Invented in 1837 by Samuel Morse. Allowed people to communicate across great distances within seconds.	3
329720471	The Telephone	Invented in 1876 by Alexanader Graham Bell.	4
329720472	The Lightbulb	Invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison.	5
329720473	The Radio	Invented in the 1890s by Marconi Guglielmo.	6
329720474	Charles Darwin	developed the concept of evolution by means of natural selction.	7
329750073	Social Darwinists	Applied Charles Darwin's biological theory of natural selction to sociology.	8
329750074	Sino-French War	When the rising imperial power of Japan wanted in on the action.	9
329750075	karl Marx	A German economist and philosopher who spent a good part of his life living in poverty.	10
329750076	Social Mobility	The ability of a person to workhis way up from one social class to th next became more commonplace.	11
329750077	Robert Clive	Raised an effective army that ridded the subcontinent of the French.	12
329750078	Factory Act of 1883	Which limited the hours of each workday, restricted children from working in factories.	13
329750079	The Airplane	Invented in 1903 by Orville and Wilbur Wrights.	14
329750080	The Internal Combustion Engine	Invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler.	15
329750081	Treaty of Shimonoseki	China was forced to hand over controlof Taiwan and grant the Japanaese trading rights similar to those it had granted Europe.	16
329750082	Trade Union	Is a union for trading.	17
329750083	Wage labor	Is how workers get paid.	18
329750084	Nationalism	Loyalty and pride in ones country.	19