The Industrial Revolution

Enlosures of farming land accelerate in Britain

Dec 30, 1750

Timeline of the Industrial Revolution

Period: Dec 30, 1750 to Dec 30, 1920

James hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

Dec 30, 1767

Richard Arkwright invents the water frame.

Dec 30, 1769

Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

Dec 30, 1779

James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinery.

Dec 30, 1781

Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron.

Dec 30, 1783

Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.

Dec 30, 1785

First Fleet arives at Botany Bay.

Dec 30, 1788

First textile factory built in the USA.

Dec 30, 1790

George Stephenson developes the Rocket, a working locomotive.

Dec 30, 1829

Gas street lighting common in Britain.

Dec 30, 1830

Brunel's steamship The Great Western crooses the Atlantic.

Dec 30, 1838

Samuel Morse send first succesful telegraph message.

Dec 30, 1844

US warships visit Japan.

Dec 30, 1853

Bessemer process enables mass production of steel.

Dec 30, 1856

Suez Canal opens.

Dec 30, 1869

Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany.

Dec 30, 1871

Overland telegraph connects Australia to Asia.

Dec 30, 1872

Alexandrer Graham Bell invents the telephone.

Dec 30, 1876

Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light bulb.

Dec 30, 1879

Eiffel Tower Completed in France.

Dec 30, 1889

Wright Brother invent modern flight.

Dec 30, 1903

Trans-Siberian Railway accelerates Russian industrialisation.

Dec 30, 1904

Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford

Dec 30, 1913