industrial revolution timeline

By von9
  • 1884 BCE

    Light Switch

    Light Switch
    The light switch is important because people need to need to operate the light
  • 1875 BCE

    Telephone

    Telephone
    It letting you communicate with other people that’s not close to you
  • 1793 BCE

    Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. ... Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil.
  • 1790 BCE

    Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    Instead of sewing with your hand it's a machine that do it for you.
  • 1785 BCE

    Power Loom

     Power Loom
    loom powered by a line shaft
  • 1779 BCE

    Spinning Mule

     Spinning Mule
    spun textile fibers into yarn by an intermittent process
  • 1769 BCE

    Water Frame

    Water Frame
    a large spinning machine and was used when cloth was only made by hand.
  • 1764 BCE

    Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once.
  • 1698 BCE

    Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698. Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines.
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle
    It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms.