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Period: to
1760
Wedgwood begins manufacturing pottery -
1765
Hargreaves invents spinning jenny
James Watt builds improved steam train -
1782
James watt invents first rotative engine -
1791
Eli Watts cotton gin built -
1825
First steam engine railroad built by stevenson
first camera -
1834
first mechanical reaper -
1844
Morse sends first telegraphic message between Washington and Baltimore -
1851
Great exhibition opens in London's Crystal Palace -
1851
Singer Sewing Machine invented -
1854
India's first cotton mill built -
1856
Mass production of steel invented -
1856
first commercial refrigeration -
1863
Construction of the London Underground Rail system begins -
1868
Beginning of Meiji Period in Japan and the great leap forward in industrialisation -
1870
Japans first telegraph line is laid -
1872
Overland telegraph links South Australia with Darwin in north -
1876
Telephone system developed by Alexander Graham Bell -
1878
Internal combustion engine developed in Germany -
1878
Edison invents the electric light -
1878
Edison invents the electric light -
1881
First electric trams, Germany -
1881
first electric trams, Germany -
1886
First automobile developed by Daimler and Benz -
1888
First railroad in China opened -
1895
Wireless telegraph invented by Marconi -
1897
Electric trams begin running in Brisbane -
1902
Cable
communication between Austrlia and United States -
1903
Wright Brothers make first aeroplane flight -
1904
Sydney gets electric street lighting -
1908
Henry Ford produces the first model T Ford -
1910
Harry Houdini flies first plane in Austrlia -
1912
Francis Birtles crosses Australia in automobile