Industrial Revolution Timeline ALEX NICHOLAS

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    Industrial Revolution

    All the events listed are vert significant to the industrial revolution. The introduction of electricity, the use of chemicals, steam powered travel, and the many inventions all have a big role in the industrial revolution. Without these events, the industrial revolution would not have occured and the world would not be as it is today.

  • The Newcomen Steam Engine

  • John Kay Invents The Flying Shuttle

  • James Hargreaves Invents The Spinning Jenny

  • Robert Fulton Begins Steamboat Services on The Hudson River

  • George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London.

  • Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph.

  • Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service.

  • Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter.

  • Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic cable.

  • Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb.

  • Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine

  • The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight.