1st INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND By antoineR6 1769 James Watt patents the STEAM ENGINE 1770 James Hargreaves patents the SPINNING JENNY 1779 Start of the building of the 1st IRON BRIDGE over the river Servern opening of the bridge was only afex years later 1786 Edmund Cartwright patents the 1st POWER LOOM 1802 Richard Trevithick patents the 1st STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 1820 John Birkinshow patents the CAST-IRON RAILS 1825 RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION by Georges Stephenson 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the TELEPHONE