industrial revolution timeline

By von9
  • Light Switch
    1884 BCE

    Light Switch

    The light switch is important because people need to need to operate the light
  • Telephone
    1875 BCE

    Telephone

    It letting you communicate with other people that’s not close to you
  • Cotton Gin
    1793 BCE

    Cotton Gin

    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. ... Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil.
  • Sewing Machine
    1790 BCE

    Sewing Machine

    Instead of sewing with your hand it's a machine that do it for you.
  • Power Loom
    1785 BCE

    Power Loom

    loom powered by a line shaft
  • Spinning Mule
    1779 BCE

    Spinning Mule

    spun textile fibers into yarn by an intermittent process
  • Water Frame
    1769 BCE

    Water Frame

    a large spinning machine and was used when cloth was only made by hand.
  • Spinning Jenny
    1764 BCE

    Spinning Jenny

    The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once.
  • Steam Engine
    1698 BCE

    Steam Engine

    The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698. Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines.
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle

    It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms.