Industrial Revolution

By rebecca.smart.00

  • Steam Engine

    The first steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen

  • Britain's first canal was opened

    Britain's first canal was opened
    Bridgewater Canal

  • The fist cotton spinning factory was opened

    The fist cotton spinning factory was opened
    Cotton Spinning Factory

  • The first steam powered mill began operation

    The first steam powered mill began operation

  • Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

    Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine
    Watts steam engine

  • Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

    Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive
    steam locomotive

  • The 'Luddites' began to destroy machines

    The 'Luddites' began to destroy machines
    'Luddites' began to destory machines

  • Britain's first passenger steam railway was opened

    Britain's first passenger steam railway was opened

  • The first freat cholera epidemic

    The first freat cholera epidemic

  • Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

  • Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

    Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

  • Telephone invented

  • Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

  • Compulsory education for all children is introduced

  • First skyscraper was built in Chicago

  • Karl Benz invented the first automobile

  • Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

  • Wireless radio invented

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

  • Outbreak of World War 1

  • Rebecca Smart was born