THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION By Erik Arbiol 1730 Rotherham Plough 1733 Kay's flying shuttle 1764 spinning machine spinning jenny 1769 Watt's steam engine 1776 Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations 1780 threshing machine 1785 Cartwright's power loom 1807 first commercial steam boat 1811 Luddism (1811-1817) 1824 mechanical reaper 1825 first trade unions 1829 george stephenson steam locomotive 1834 Grand national Consolidated Trade Union 1855 Bessemer converter steel manufacturing 1864 first international 1864