Time Machine

10. Invention of the steam boat

John Fitch built four more steamboats, but they were expensive to build and to operate.
Because they were so expensive, his steamboats were unsuccessful. The first successful
steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.

9. American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and
1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British
monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the
United States of America.

8. The Royal Proclamation

The Royal Proclamation is a document that set out guidelines for European settlement of
Aboriginal territories in what is now North America. The Royal Proclamation was initially issued
by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won
the Seven Years War.

7. The Great Migration

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the
rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that
occurred between 1910 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the AfricanAmerican population lived in the American South. [1] In 1900, only one-fifth of AfricanAmericans living in the South were living in urban areas. [2] By the end of the Great
Migration, a bare majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent
lived in the North, and 7 percent in the West, [3] and African-Americans had become
an urbanized population. By 1970, more than 80 percent of African-Americans lived
in cities,[4] and by 1960, of those African-Americans still living in the South, half now
lived in urban areas.[2] In 1991, Nicholas Lemann wrote that the Great Migration:

6. Lightning rod

A lightning rod (US, AUS) or lightning conductor (UK) is a metal rod or metallic
object mounted on top of an elevated structure, such as a building, a ship, or even a
tree, electrically bonded using a wire or electrical conductor to interface with
ground or "earth" through an electrode, engineered to protect the structure in the
event of lightning strike.

5. Seed drill
A seed drill is a device that sows the seeds for crops by metering out the individual seeds,
positioning them in the soil, and covering them to a certain average depth.

4. Flying Shuttle
The flying shuttle was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the
early Industrial Revolution. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could
be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. The flying shuttle was patented by John
Kay (1704c. 1779) in 1733.

3. Submarine
A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater

2. Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its
working fluid.

1. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the
Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on
28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was
one of a group of six assassins coordinated by Danilo Ili, a Bosnian Serb and a
member of the Black Hand secret society

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