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★In the 1840's the fastest way to send a message was by train. That could take days or even weeks! on May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse sent one of the world’s first electronic messages. “What hath God wrought!”*★

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★In 1828, Scots Man Patrick Bell invented the first horse-drawn reaper ( a machine for harvesting crops) Three years later, Cyrus McCormick made a more popular design.★

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★The high speed of trains both terrified and excited early passengers. In 1830 a Charleston, South Carolina, newspaper reported: “[The train] flew on the wings of wind at the speed of 15 to 25 miles per hour.★

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★In 1698 English man Thomas Savery invented the first steam pump. Fellow Englishman Thomas Newcomen took Savery’s idea, improved on it, and used it to pump.★

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★People have been using iron to make weapons and tools since 3000's. In the early 1700s, English inventor Abraham
Darby found a cheap way to smelt iron – to turn the raw material called iron ore into pure metal.★

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★Coal was the fuel of the Industrial Revolution. It became popular in the 1600's, after England had used up the wood in its forests for construction.★