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The Industrail Revolution

By Spida

  • The Bank Of England was Established

  • Arbraham Darby develops a blast furnace capable of producing high quality iron

  • Thomas Newcombe develops the first practical steam engine

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    The invetion of a larger spinning and weaving machines shift the textile industry into factories

  • enclosures of farming land accelerate in Britain

  • James Watt invents o steam enginecapable of producing continuos power

  • The United States of America is born when the American colonies win independence from Britain

  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule

  • Henry Cort's "puddling" process further improves the quality of iron products

  • The Boulton and Watt steam engine is first used in textile factories

  • First British fleet arrives at Botony Bay (Sydney)

  • the French revolution begins

  • the first official population census is taken in Britain

  • Britsh found the new colony of Van Diemen's land (Tasmania)

  • the first working steam locomotive train, known as Puffing Billy, is built

  • the first English steam railway (from Stockton to Darlington) is opened

  • Railway building begins in France and Germany

  • Samuel Morse develops the single wire telegraph

  • Australia's gold rush begins

  • Alexander GrahamBel patents the first telephone

  • Thomas edison invents the first electricc light bulb

  • Eiffel Tower completed in Paris, France

  • Wright brothers invent modern flight

  • Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford automobile