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First Central Bank Established in England
The bank of England, formally the Governor and Company of the bank of England, is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. -
James Kay invented the Flying Shuttle
which was a simple weaving machine, that was used to create clothing faster and in an easier way and it starting the production of clothing today. -
James Watt improves the steam engine
he did this to make it more powerful and more effective in the Industrial Revolution. -
Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations.
First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. -
Watt adapts his steam engine
James Watt's improvements in 1769 and 1784 to the steam engine converted a machine of limited use, to one of efficiency and many applications. It was the foremost energy source in the emerging Industrial Revolution, and greatly multiplied its productive capacity. -
Arkwright changes his huge factories
Arkwright changes his huge Factories over from water power to steam engines, because it was more effective and saved more power and was more powerful. -
George Stephenson patented the steam locomotive on rails
Within a few years of his death in 1848 George Stephenson was called ‘the father of the railways’, but that accolade has been challenged because there were other engineers involved in the development of the world’s first railway system. -
Friedrich Engels published his observations of the effects of industrialisation
Friedrich publishes, in German, The Condition of the Working Class in England. Based on his own observations and a mass of contemporary reports, the book described in trenchant prose the multitude of horrors daily suffered by English workers—the unsanitary streets of densely crowded urban slums, the decaying and degrading living quarters, the disrupted and disintegrating families, and, in the passage reproduced here, the unsavoury, unsafe, and physically debilitating factories themselves -
6031 miles of railroad track in Great Britain
Transport in the United Kingdom is facilitated with road, air, rail, and water networks. A radial road network totals 29,145 miles (46,904 km) of main roads, 2,173 miles (3,497 km) of motorways and 213,750 miles (344,000 km) of paved roads. The National Rail network of 10,072 route miles (16,116 km) in Great Britain and 189 route miles (303 route km) in Northern Ireland carries over 18,000 passenger and 1,000 freight trains daily. -
Education Act made school compulsory.
the Government to refer to changes regarding the legal age a child is permitted to leave compulsory education, usually falling under an Education Act.