Industrial, Economic, and Scientific Revolutions Timeline

  • Copernicus
    Feb 12, 1543

    Copernicus

    Claims the universe is heliocentric
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Publishes Wealth of Nations
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    Perfects Steam Engine
  • James Hargeaves

    James Hargeaves

    Spinning Jenny
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    Invents the Cotton Gin
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

    Steam boat inventor
  • Factory Act of 1833

    Factory Act of 1833

    Limits work hours for women and children
  • Suez Canal

    Suez Canal

    Opens
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    writes The Communist Manifesto
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Nobel Prize for her work
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Article of theory of Relativity