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Beginning of Industrial Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution was a period of major mechanization and innovation that began in Great Britain during the mid-18th century and early 19th century and later spread throughout much of the world. -
The first Steam Engine was created
The first steam engine is created by James Watt who improved the inventions of Eduard Somerset and Thomas Newcomen, Watt is considered the first inventor of the steam engine although it was actually Necome. -
Spinning Jenny
A Multi Bobbin Spinning Machine is created by James Hargeaves in Stanhil England, This equipment greatly reduced the labor required for the production of yarn giving it the capacity to even a worker eight or more. This product was of great importance for the textile industry. -
Drilling Machine
John Wilkinson built in his father's factory a Horizontal boring machine that bored parts for cylinders and cannon bores, the precision of which allowed Watt to develop his steam engine. -
Improved Steam Engined
James Watt patents an improved steam engine making it useful as a power source in factories and other applications such as steam boats and trains. -
First Mechanical Spinning Machine
The first spinning machine is designed and created by Edmund Catwright and William Horrocks. This invention allowed textiles to be made much faster. -
Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine was a mechanical unit that separated the seeds from the cotton. This small machine allowed this separation at high speed and economically. -
Industrial Revolution in the United States.
The Industrial Revolution spreads to the United States when Samuel Slater opens the first textile mill in Rhode Island -
Steam Locomotive
It was built by Richard Trevithick, this machine ran on iron rails inappropriate for its weight, this locomotive could pull a load of forty tons at a speed of six kilometers per hour. Until 1825, when it began, steam locomotives were used only on iron lines in mines. -
First commercially successful steamboat.
Robert Fulton starts the first successful steamboat operation with his boat the Clermont. -
Luddites Protest
The Luddites attack factories in Great Britain smashing machines in a protest against industry. -
Trade unions are legalized in Great Britain.
Trade unions were legalised in 1824, when growing numbers of factory workers joined these associations in their efforts to achieve better wages and working conditions. -
The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is completed opening a water route from the Great Lakes to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. -
The Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately. -
Telegraph
Samuel Morse American painter invents the first telegraph that allowed messages to be transmitted through electrical pulses using Morse code, also invented by him. Later he would go on to establish the first telegraph line throughout the United States. -
The Steel Plow
A blacksmith named John Deere invents the steel plow.