Industrial Revolution Timeline

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  • (Abraham Darby) Used coke to melt iron ore

  • (Thomas Newcomen) The First Steam Engine was built

    The First Steam was built

  • (Benjamin Franklin) The lightning rod is invented

  • (James Hargreaves) The spinning Jenny is invented

  • (James Watt) The Steam Engine is invented

    A better steam engine is created by James Watt

  • (Nicolas Joseph Cugnot) The automobile is invented

  • (David Bushnell) Submarine is invented

  • (Henry Cort) The puddling process of creating iron is created

  • (John Fitch) Steamboat is invented

  • (Edward Jenner) Smallpox vaccination gets invented

  • The current population of Britain is at about 9 million

  • (William Sturgeon) The electromagnet is created

  • Child labour laws are uplifted

    The law banned children under 9 from working in textile mills. And also children aged 13 to 18 are not to work more than 69 hours a week.

  • (Kirkpatrick MacMillan) The bicycle gets invented

  • (Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden) The typewriter gets invented

  • (Alexander Graham Bell) The telephone gets created

  • (Thomas Edison) The lightbulb is created

  • (Rudolf Diesel) The first diesel engine is created

  • (Wilbur & Oville Wright) The first airplane is invented