Industrial Revolution timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Dec 30, 1730 to Dec 30, 1930

Timeline of the Industrial Revolution
Dec 30, 1750

Enclosures of farming land accelarate in Britain
Dec 30, 1767

James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
Dec 30, 1769

Richard Arkwright invents the water frame
Dec 30, 1779

Samuel Cromptin invents the spinning mule
Dec 30, 1781

James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinary
Dec 30, 1783

Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron
Dec 30, 1785

Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Dec 30, 1788

First fleet arrives at Botany Bay
Dec 30, 1790

First textile factory built in the USA
Dec 30, 1829

George Stephenson develops the Rocket, a working locomotive
Dec 30, 1830

Gas street lighting common in Britain
Dec 30, 1838

Brunel's steamship the Great Western Crosses the Atlantic
Dec 30, 1844

Samuel Morse sends first successful telegraph message
Dec 30, 1853

US warship visits Japan
Dec 30, 1856

Besserner process enables mass production of steel
Dec 30, 1869

Suez Canal opens
Dec 30, 1871

Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany
Dec 30, 1872

Overland Telegraph connects Australia to Asia
Dec 30, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone
Dec 30, 1879

Thomis Edison invents the first reliable electric lightbulb
Dec 30, 1889

Eiffwl Tower completed in France
Dec 30, 1903

Wright Brothers invent modern flight
Dec 30, 1904

Trans-Siberian railway accelerates Russian industrialisation
Dec 30, 1913

Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford