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Seed Drill invented
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In the year 1702, the first-ever factory was set up in England, The Silk Mill
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The first working steam engine was presumably built by Thomas Newcomen and James Watt in 1705, and acted as the foundation for the first Industrial Revolution. In order to make a steam engine work, you first need a boiler to turn liquid water into steam.
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The Industrial Revolution began in Newcastle in 1710 with the Newcomen steam engine, which depended on vacuum rather than high pressure. That may have made Victorian engineers particularly conscious of vacuum-operated machines.
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