Industrial Revolution By meslersarah 1712 Thomas Newcomen creates the first steam engine https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Timeline-Industrial-Revolution/ 1733 The silk factory is started by John Lombe 1750 Cotton clothes were being produced from transported raw cotton 1761 Bridgewater Canal opens, first one in Britain 1764 James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny to produce clothing 1764 James Watt carried out Thomas Newcomen's steam engine and made it more efficient by 60% 1769 James Watt created a new unit of measurement: the horsepower 1769 Richard Arkwright created the water frame which attaches the spinning machine to a water wheel 1774 Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule which combined the process of spinning and weaving 1784 Henry Cort came up with the idea for a puddling furnace to make iron 1785 Edmund Cartwright created the power loom 1790 Edmund Cartwright later created the wool combining machine 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first working railway locomotive 1812 Parliament passed a law making destruction of industrial machines punishable by death 1815 Humphrey Davy and George Stephenson invented safety lamps for minors
