Broad Timeline for the European Industrial Revolution

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    The European Industrial Revolution

  • The Steam Engine is invented

  • John Kay invents the flying shuttle

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    The American Industrial Revolution

  • The Spinning Jenny is invented

  • Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame

  • James Watt improves the steam enine

  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph

  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule

  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin

  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery

  • Alfred Krupp had established an iron foundry at Essen in 1810.

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    The German Industrial Revolution

    Dates are approximate
  • Samuel Morse invents the telegraph

  • the German states began to overtake France and catch up with Britain between 1850 and 1870

  • Werner Siemens invented the Electric dynamo in 1866