Industrial Revolution By Angus.Norman88 1760 The Industrial Revolution starts 1770 Richard Arkwright is the first to use watts steam engine to power textile machinery 1780 Edmund Cartwright inverts a crude power loom. 1793 Samuel slater a former apprentice to jededish strutt. 1807 Two Englishmen William and John cockrill bring the Industrial Revolution to Belguim. Period: 1811 to 1813 Social oppositions to industrialisation begins to arise. Period: 1834 to 1859 In United States Cyrus McCormick inverts several machines used to mechanise farming. 1876 Alexander graham bell patents his telephone. Period: 1879 to 1882 Thomas Edison introduces the modern age of light when he invents the light bulb. 1903 Orville and wibar wright archive the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight.