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key events of industrial revolution

By Lizzy1999
  • first steam engine

    first steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine in 1712 and it was the first modern steam engine
  • first cotton spinning factory opened

    first cotton spinning factory opened

    The first cotton spinning factory was opened. Cotton-spinning machinery refers to machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread.
  • first steam powered mill began

    first steam powered mill began

    The first steam powered mill began operation Although some were driven by animal power, most early mills were built in rural locations near to fast-flowing rivers and streams and had water wheels to power them.
  • britians first canal

    britians first canal

    in 1761 britian opened its first canal The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution
  • the first rotary steam engine

    the first rotary steam engine

    Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back about 2,000 years.
  • richard trevithicks first steam locomotive

    richard trevithicks first steam locomotive

    Richard Trevithick is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine .
  • 'luddities' began to destroy machines

    'luddities' began to destroy machines

    The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817
  • britians first passenger steam railway

    britians first passenger steam railway

    First commercial use of steam locomotive on the Middleton Railway, It was also the first rail line to be built in any of Britain's West Indies colonies.
  • the first great cholera epidemic

    the first great cholera epidemic

  • Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

    Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

  • Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

    Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

  • Telephone invented

    Telephone invented

  • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb

    Thomas Edison invents the light bulb

  • Compulsory education for all children is introduced

    Compulsory education for all children is introduced

  • first skyscraper was built in chicago

    first skyscraper was built in chicago

  • Karl Benz invented the first automobile

    Karl Benz invented the first automobile

  • Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

    Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

  • first wireless phone invented

    first wireless phone invented

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

    Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

  • Outbreak of World War I

    Outbreak of World War I