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The Industrial Revolution

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    The Industrial Revolution

  • Mchanical seed sower

    Mchanical seed sower

    Jethro Tull's mechanical (seed) sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation.
  • Fuel

    Fuel

    Abraham Darby uses soke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcoal as fuel.
  • The Newcomensteam engine

    The Newcomensteam engine

  • First sucessful steam engine

    First sucessful steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen builds first commercially successful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. first significant power source other than wind and water.
  • Flying shuttle

    Flying shuttle

    John Kay's flying shuttle
  • First threshing machine.

    First threshing machine.

  • Power Loom

    Power Loom

    Cartwright builds a power loom
  • Demonstartion of a steam locomotive

    Demonstartion of a steam locomotive

    Robert Trevithick demonstrates a steam locomotive
  • First sucessful steamboat

    First sucessful steamboat

    Robert Fulton's clermont first successful steamboat.
  • Electro-magnetic rotation

    Electro-magnetic rotation

    Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principle of the electric motor.
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code

    Morse develops Morse Code.
  • First ocean going steamship

    First ocean going steamship

    Great Western the first ocean going steamship
  • First sewing machine

    First sewing machine

    Singer invents first practical seing machine
  • Natural sciences tripo at cambridge

    Natural sciences tripo at cambridge

  • Elevator safety brake

    Elevator safety brake

    Elisha otis invents the elevator safety brake making skyscrapers possible.
  • Origin of Species

    Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
  • Oil Stirke

    Oil Stirke

    Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania
  • First succesful gasoline engine

    First succesful gasoline engine

    Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite

    Alfred Nobel produces dynamite, the first high explosive which can be handled safely.
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Bell invents the telephone
  • Automobile

    Automobile

    Benz develops first automobile to run on internal combustion engine.
  • Aspirin

    Aspirin

    Aspirin invnted
  • First powered flight

    First powered flight

    Wright brothers make first powered flight
  • Model T

    Model T

    Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T
  • World War 1 began

    World War 1 began