Timeline of Industrial Revolution By bfrazer Period: 1721 to 1721 Many credit Derby’s John Lombe with his five storey red brick silk mill, completed in 1721 Period: 1763 to 1762 James Watt invented the first practical steam engine in 1763 Period: 1764 to 1764 The ‘Spinning Jenny’ was an engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, Period: 1792 to 1 CE Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine Period: 1804 to 1804 Richard Trexithick's locomotive carried 10 tones of iron Period: 1826 to 1826 Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first perminent photo Period: 1831 to 1831 The first electric generator was invented by Michael Faraday in 1831 Period: 1837 to 1834 Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone successfully demonstrated the first electrical telegraph Period: 1860 to 1869 Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, in the 1860s. Period: 1892 to 1892 William Burt, an American inventor, patented the first typewriter which he called a ‘typographer’.