Industrial Revolution Timeline

By rachlb

  • Seed Sower - Jethro Tull

    Allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths which meant that farming became much easier.

  • Thames-Severn - 1789

    Part of the canal route from Bristol to London and was compleded in 1789

  • Morse telegraphing code - 1804, Robert Trevithick

    Way of keeping information more secret

  • High Pressure Steam Engine - 1804, Robert Trevithick

    Powered al early locomotives, steam boats and factories

  • First Skyscraper - Major William LeBaron Jenny

    Built in 1885 from steel frame which supported the entire building.