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... that inventor
Thomas Highs
was never credited for his invention of both the
spinning jenny
(
pictured
) and the
water frame
, mostly due to his lack of funding to patent the devices?
... that the six
Charles Tayleur locomotives
ordered by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
for the
Great Western Railway
were unsuccessful?
... that the
Goose Creek Oil Field
in
Galveston Bay
had the first
offshore oil wells
in
Texas
,
U.S.
, and the
removal of oil
led to
subsidence
of the overlying terrain?
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appearance.
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