Industrial Revolution Timeline

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  • Beginning In Britain: The Industrial Revolution

    James Watt's kicks off the revolution in Britain around 1764, with the conceived invention of the steam engine, an influential innovation that will be widely utilized during the Industrial Revolution in America.

  • Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves with the creation of the Spinning Jenny, a metal frame with 8 wooden spindles that allowed for workers to produce cloth much quicker.

  • Spinning Mule

    An inventor by the name of Samuel Crompton combined the processes of spinning and weaving into one machine.

  • Ironmaster

    Henry Cort introduced the idea of a furnace for making iron. It was a bar iron ith a reverberating furnace stirred with rods, which ultimately proved to be revolutionary.

  • Cotton Gin

    Samuel Slater introduces the first successful cotton mill in Rhode Island with the help of Eli Whitney, who creates the Cotton Gin, a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds.

  • Locomotives

    The opening of the first passenger railway carrying passengers on a public line is revealed to society.

  • Agricultural Breakthroughs

    Cyrus McCormick invents several farming and ag tools, one being the mechanical reaper, which revolutionizes farming for upcoming years.

  • Morse Code

    Samuel F.B Morse created the Morse Code with a partner, Alfred Vail, which is a system for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by arranging dots, dashes, and spaces.

  • Steam Hammer

    James Nasmyth invents the Steam Hammer, a hammer built to meet certain criteria's for shaping large iron and steel factors.

  • Railroads

    The first transcontinental railroad is built in America, connecting the East Coast to the West Coast, which revolutionizes transportation and continues on the spread of industrialization within America.

  • Telephone Creation

    Alexander Graham Bell designs the telephone and patents it in 1876 Networks of telephone lines are built all across the US.

  • Lightbulb Invention

    Thomas Edison introduces the incandescent lightbulb, which later electricity is then applied and electric lighting makes its way throughout the US.