Technology of the Industrial Revolution

Charles Townsend introduces four-field crop rotation

Aug 20, 1730

James Hargreaves creates the spinning jenny

Dec 20, 1764

It is a multi-spindle spinning frame, that revoluntionized yarn making.

Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame

Dec 20, 1769

Invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way.

James Watt creates new improved version of steam engine

Dec 20, 1769

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

Mar 14, 1794

This revolutionizes textile industry and creates a resurgence of slavery in the America

Alessandro Volta creates a wet battery called the Voltaic Pile

Jan 1, 1800

This battery was the first to produce the a continuous flow of electric current. It was made of zinc, copper and cardboard and soaked in salt water to convey electricity.

Joseph Marie Jacquard invents Jacquard loom

Dec 20, 1801

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles.

George Stephenson builds built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives

Feb 21, 1830

Samuel Morse develops concept of single wire telegraph

Dec 20, 1832

Daguerre comes out with the daguerre process of photo developing

Aug 19, 1839

Henry Bessemer first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively

Dec 20, 1856

Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication

Dec 20, 1874

Alexander Graham Bell recieves patent the first practical telephone

Mar 7, 1876

Gottlieb Daimler creates the first internal combustion motorcycle

Oct 19, 1886

Edison creates the wax cylinder phonograph

Dec 20, 1889

First medium for recording and replaying sound