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| c. 1710 |
| | | Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| 1724 |
| | | General Wade, commander-in-chief of North Britain, begins an impressive programme of road construction in the Scottish Highlands | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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| 1779 |
| | | The world's first iron bridge is assembled in a few months across the Severn at Coalbrookdale | |
|  | W. Williams, The Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1802 |
| | | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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