Industrial revolution

By TobysTall

  • Wedgwood began manufacturing pottery

  • James Watts improves steam train

  • James Watt invents first rotative engine

  • First steam engine railroad built by Stevenson

  • America

    First mechanical reaper

  • Great exhibition opens in Londons Crystal palace

  • America

    Singer sewing machine invented

  • Mass production of steel

  • Construction of the London underground rail system begins

  • Internal combustion engine developed in Germany

  • First electric trams in Germany

  • Australia

    Sunshine harvester developed in Victoria

  • First automobile developed by Daimler and Benz

  • Asia

    First Railroad opened up in China

  • Wireless telegraph invented by Marconi

  • America

    Wright brothers make first aeroplane

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