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William Lee invented the stocking frame, a mechanical knitting machine for knitting stockings. It played an important role in the early part of the Industrial Revolution -
Abraham Darby discovers how to make coal from coke it become a more efficient fuel in the production of iron. -
Thomas Newcomen builds a steam engine to pump water from coalminess -
John Kay invents the flying shuttle, allowing weavers to make larger sections of fabric at greater speed, increasing demand for yarn. -
James Hargreaves spinning jenny allows one worker to make eight times the previous amount of yarn. -
James Watt creates an efficient steam engine. -
Steam-powered mills with automatic weaving machines begin to be built -
Inventor William Murdoch uses coal gas for house lighting -
Eli Whitney invents the cotton Gin (engine), which can clean large quantities of raw cotton. -
Riots begin, lasting until 1815, in which worker smash up factories and equipment because of the fear that machines would replace them. -
Michael Faraday transforms electrical energy into . mechanical energy, creating the first electric motor -
Isambard Brunel starts building a tunnel under the Thames River, Completing it in 1842 -
The worlds first screw-propelled steamship, "Archimedes" is build in Great Britain. -
Bulk steel creation is made possible through the open-hearth process created by Siemens-Martin. The use of steel combined with reinforced concrete enables the construction of skyscrapers. -
British ship Great Eastern succeeded in laying the first permanent telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Alexander Graham Bell patents his "acoustic telegraph" or telephone. -
The first 10-storey skyscraper is built in Chicago and the longest suspension bridge at this time. -
Karl benz uses an internal Combustion engine in the first "automobile" -
the Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with their successful first flights of a heavier-than-air flying machine at Kitty Hawk -
Henry Ford uses a production line to produce the Ford Model T -
The world's largest passenger steamship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sicks 1517 people died.