Industrial Revolution

By shannonvale
  • Mechanical Seed Sower

    Mechanical Seed Sower

    Jethro Tulls' mechanical (seed) sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Coke Smelts Iron Ore

    Coke Smelts Iron Ore

    Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcoal as fuel
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine

    Thomas Newcome builds first commercially successful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power source other than wind and water
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle

    John Kay's flying shuttle
  • Threshing Machine

    Threshing Machine

    First threshing machine
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom

    Catwright builds a power loom
  • Steam Locomotive

    Steam Locomotive

    Robert Trevithick demonstrates steam locomotive
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat

    Robert Fulton's Clermont first successful steamboat
  • Electric Motor

    Electric Motor

    Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principle of the electric motor
  • Telegraph and Morse Code

    Telegraph and Morse Code

    Samuel Morse delvelops the telegraph and Morse code.
  • Steamship

    Steamship

    Great Western-first ocean-giong steamship
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine

    Singer invents firt practical sewing machine
  • The Origin of Species

    The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin, the Origin of Species
  • Oil

    Oil

    Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania
  • Gasoline Engine

    Gasoline Engine

    Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite

    Alfred Nobelproduces dynamite, the first high explosive which can be safely handled
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Graham Bell invents the telephone
  • Internal-Combustion Engine

    Internal-Combustion Engine

    Benz develops first automobile to run on internal-combustion engine