Industrial Revolution

  • The Industrial Revolution starts

  • Richard Arkwright is the first to use watts steam engine to power textile machinery

  • Edmund Cartwright inverts a crude power loom.

  • Samuel slater a former apprentice to jededish strutt.

  • Two Englishmen William and John cockrill bring the Industrial Revolution to Belguim.

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    Social oppositions to industrialisation begins to arise.

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    In United States Cyrus McCormick inverts several machines used to mechanise farming.

  • Alexander graham bell patents his telephone.

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    Thomas Edison introduces the modern age of light when he invents the light bulb.

  • Orville and wibar wright archive the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight.