Industrial Revolution

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  • First Central Bank established in England

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    Industrial Revolution

  • Thomas Newcomen invented the first productive steam engine

  • James Kay invented the Flying Shuttle, a simple weaving machine.

  • Richard Arkwright invented the water frame, which hooked up spinning machines to a water wheel.

  • James Watt patented his revision of the steam engine, featuring a separate condenser

  • Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule which combined spinning and weaving into one machine

  • Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations

  • Watt adapts his steam engine from a reciprocal to a rotary motion

  • Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, which, after 1800 was powered by new steam engines. Replaced the flying shuttle

  • Carkwright changes his huge factories over from water power to steam engines

  • Combination Acts make it illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay or better working conditions.

    Combination Acts make it illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay or better working conditions.

  • Richard Trevithick drives the Cornish “puffer” steam powered locomotive down the street of Camborne, England

  • Luddite Rebellion begins

  • Parliament passes law making it illegal by penalty of death to destroy industrial machines

  • 14 Luddites hanged in Manchester after a rushed one-day trial.

  • George Stephenson patented a steam engine locomotive that ran on rails

  • Stephenson commissioned to construct a 30-mile railway from Liverpool to Manchester

  • Stephenson’s Rocket wins the speed contest on the new Liverpool to Manchester railroad. 51 miles of railroad track in Great Britain and the entire world.

  • Sadler Committee investigates child labor in factories and issues report to Parliament

  • The first Factory Act provides first small regulation of child labor in textile factories

  • Poor Law created “poorhouses” for the destitute.

  • 106,000 power looms operating in Great Britain

  • Friedrich Engels publishes his observations of the negative effects of industrialization in The Condition of the Working-Class in England.

  • British government sets up the General Board of Health to investigate sanitary conditions, setting up local boards to ensure safe water in cities

  • 6,031 miles of railroad track in Great Britain

  • Education Act made school compulsory for children up to age 10.

  • 35,00 miles of railroad track in Great Britain