key events of industrial revolution

first steam engine

Mar 5, 1712

Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine in 1712 and it was the first modern steam engine

first cotton spinning factory opened

Apr 8, 1771

The first cotton spinning factory was opened. Cotton-spinning machinery refers to machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread.

first steam powered mill began

Jun 6, 1779

The first steam powered mill began operation Although some were driven by animal power, most early mills were built in rural locations near to fast-flowing rivers and streams and had water wheels to power them.

britians first canal

Jan 1, 1781

in 1761 britian opened its first canal The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution

the first rotary steam engine

Sep 12, 1782

Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back about 2,000 years.

richard trevithicks first steam locomotive

Feb 8, 1801

Richard Trevithick is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine .

'luddities' began to destroy machines

Mar 5, 1811

The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817

britians first passenger steam railway

Mar 5, 1825

First commercial use of steam locomotive on the Middleton Railway, It was also the first rail line to be built in any of Britain's West Indies colonies.

the first great cholera epidemic

Mar 5, 1831

Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

Mar 5, 1833

Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

Mar 5, 1834

Telephone invented

Mar 5, 1876

Thomas Edison invents the light bulb

Mar 5, 1879

Compulsory education for all children is introduced

Mar 5, 1880

first skyscraper was built in chicago

Mar 5, 1883

Karl Benz invented the first automobile

Mar 5, 1885

Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

Mar 5, 1888

first wireless phone invented

Mar 5, 1889

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

Mar 5, 1903

Outbreak of World War I

Mar 5, 1914