Industrial Revolution By reilly.spillman.00 Mar 5, 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine+ Mar 5, 1761 Britain's first canal was open here Mar 5, 1771 The first cotton spinning factory was opened COTTON FACTORY Mar 5, 1779 The first steam powered mill began operation here Mar 5, 1782 Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine HERE Mar 5, 1801 Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive Mar 5, 1811 The 'luddites' began to destroy machines Mar 5, 1825 Britain's first passenger steam railway was opened Mar 5, 1831 The first great cholera epidemic Mar 5, 1833 Slavery was abolished throughout the british empire Mar 5, 1834 Henry Fox Talbot Henry Fox Talbothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot Mar 5, 1879 Thomas Edison Thomas Edison Mar 19, 1880 Compulsory education for all children is introduced Mar 19, 1883 First skyscraper was built in Chicago Mar 19, 1885 Karl Benz invented the first automobile Mar 19, 1888 Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves Mar 19, 1889 wireless radio invented Mar 19, 1914 World war 2
