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Rev. William Lee, born at Woodborough near Nottingham, invents the Stocking Frame, a mechanical device for knitting stockings.
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning frame. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced.
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The first practical steam-powered engine was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery. Then improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, the Watt steam engine was developed sporadically from 1763 to 1775 and was the next great step in the development of the steam engine. In around 1800, Richard Trevithick introduced engines using high-pressure steam.England began to manufacture practical and inexpensive articles, which could be exported if they were produced on a large-scale.
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1807- the passage of the Embargo Act -the real impetus for America entering the Industrial Revolution.
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1826 The first permanent photograph of a camera image was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera. The picture was made after 8 hours of exposure.
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most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain had become the workshop of the world.
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1861–1895 China begins its Self-Strengthening Movement, which involves nationwide industrialization and Military modernization in order to defeat western colonial powers.
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1870-1914 Second Industrial Revolution included the chemical industries, petroleum refining and distribution, electrical industries.
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1870 – In Japan, the industrial revolution began about as Meiji period leaders decided to catch up with the West.
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Karl Benz built (and subsequently patented) the first automobile, powered by his own four-stroke cycle gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany.
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The first powered plane was invented and tested by the Wright brothers in 1903
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1931–1938 Turkey began its modernization during Kemal’s presidency, which is also known as Kemal’s new deal or Kemal’s reforms, involved national industrialization ,economic reforms, and development of language and education.
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From Dec 5- 9 1952, the fog caused 12,000 deaths and that 25,000 more people had claimed sickness that resulted from London during that period.
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3 years after Communist leader Mao’s death, China’s economic reforms were hammered out and started to be implemented. After 27 years of Mao’s devastating rule, China's leaders decided to give up communism and end "class war". Since then, people were allowed to run their own businesses, international and commercial activities were no longer banned, and China started its modernaztion and industrialization.
