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A time line from 1700 till 1900 shows the different inventions with their illustrations that caused industrial revolution. They are as follows:

 1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.

 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle

 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

 1793: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

 1807: Robert Fulton begins steamboat service on the Hudson River.

 1830: George Stephenson begins passenger rail service between Liverpool and London.

 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.

 1866: Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic cable.

 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

 1879: Thomas Edison invents the incandescent lightbulb.

 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.

 1896: Henry Ford manufactures his first motorcar.

 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

 1903: The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight.

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A line graph illustrates the global perception of U.S. power and influence from 2013 till 2017. There is a question that says, “U.S. power and influence is a blank to our country.”, with the options major threat, minor threat, and not a threat. The line from 2013 to 2017

 Major threat: 25 percent in 2013, and 38 percent in 2017.

 Minor threat: 30 percent in 2013, and 24 percent in 2017.

 Not a threat: 35 percent in 2013, and 23 percent in 2017.

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The list of the most spoken languages in the world is as follows:

 Chinese: 1,284 million.

 Spanish: 437 million.

 English: 372 million.

 Arabic: 295 million.

 Hindi: 260 million.

 Bengali: 242 million.

 Portuguese: 219 million.

 Russian: 154 million.

 Japanese: 128 million.

 Lahnda: 119 million.

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An illustration shows a large circle named, “National culture”. Within it are many small circles named, “subculture”, and even smaller circles named, “microculture”. A large and a small explosion shaped outline interrupts the national culture circle and is named as, “Counter cultures, opposition”.