You have finished researching lenses.
You are building schools, you are researching pumps, handcars and pedal powered ones, you have clear glass, ceramics and waterproof pipes
@MrPineapple You are farming in fertile land, you are developing pesticides and are improving fertilizer, farming methods, mining methods, road materials, forges, alloys, mass production methods, houses, buildings and ships. You have applied a capitalist model to your nation, you have made an investigation agency, you are looking for rubber trees and are farming cotton, you are expanding and building ports on the coast.
You are recruiting researchers, you have built schools, you are looking for good alchemists, you are researching telescopes (and thus also lenses along with it), gunpowder, steam power and are improving machinery.
@Amo you are expanding into your claims, you are incorporating the natives into your civilization, you are chopping trees, you are improving and increasing the amount of rice fields, you have applied a capitalist model to your society and have banned slavery, you are using boats to get to the island, you are looking for iron.
You have finished research on manual printing presses, antibiotics and the bessemer process.
You are developing tools for engineering, you are developing new alloys and you have trained 500 troops. You are improving mining techniques, you are tapping into aquifiers you find, you have formed a manifest destiny policy regarding expansion over your continent, you are mining in and setting up refineries in the mountains, you are researching the haber process, you are selling schematics and are standardizing policies for manufacturing.
You are researching rubber and will research bikes after that, you are building facilities for the mass production of printing presses, steel, antibiotics and paper, you are establishing temples in the capital, you have developed ceramics and porcelain, you are expanding, you are building more farms and improving fertilizer and ploughs as well as diverting water from the river to be able to expand your agriculture.
@Watboi1 you are handing out loans to merchant families and nobles for construction of factories and infrastructure, you are streamlining city design to increase transport efficiency, you have established an engineering districts, offering better organization, you have set up a government scholarship scheme.