key inventions from the industrial revolution

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  • Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

  • Britain’s first canal was opened

    Britain’s first canal was opened

  • The first cotton spinning factory was opened

    The first cotton spinning factory was opened
    cotton

  • The first steam powered mill began operation

    The first steam powered mill began operation

  • 1782 – MatthewBoulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

    1782 – MatthewBoulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine
    steam engine

  • Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

    Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

  • The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

    The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

  • Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

    Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

  • The first great cholera epidemic

    The first great cholera epidemic

  • Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

    Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

  • Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

    first photograph

  • Telephone invented

    telephone

  • Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

    lightbulb

  • Compulsory education for all children is introduced

    compulsary education

  • First skyscraper was built in Chicago

    first skyscraper

  • Karl Benz invented the first automobile

  • Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

  • Wireless radio invented

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

  • Outbreak of World War I