Industrial Revolution Timeline

By bellacowart

  • Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves

  • Steam Engine improved by James Watt

  • American Revolution begins

  • Guillotine invented by Dr. Guillotin

  • French Revolution begins

  • Cotton Gin with interchangeable parts invented by Eli Whitney

  • Edward Jenner invents smallpox vaccination method

  • British abolition of Trans-Atlantic slave trade

  • First Bicycle owned by German Baron Karl von Drais

  • Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse

  • Sewing Machine invented by Elias Howe

  • First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls

  • Bessemer Process Developed

  • Emancipation Proclamation in US

  • Germ Theory developed by Louis Pasteur

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Light Bulb invented by Thomas Edison

  • First Automobile by Karl Benz

  • Founding of the American Federation of Labor

  • Diesel Engine invented by Rudolf Diesel