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| 1836 |
| | | Work begins on the suspension bridge over the river Avon, at Clifton, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel | |
|  | Clifton Suspension Bridge
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| 1837 |
| | | The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson | |
|  | Primrose Hill Tunnel, c.1837
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| 1838 |
| | | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Rowland Hill introduces in Britain the world's first postage stamps - the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The Brunel engineers, father and son, finish an 18-year project tunnelling under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe | |
|  | View of the Thames tunnel
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| 1843 |
| | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail complete the first telegraph line, between New York and Baltimore | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The self-contained metal cartridge, with a percussion cap in its base, is patented by a Paris gunsmith named Houiller | |
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