key events of the industrial revolution By _katelyn Mar 10, 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine Mar 10, 1761 Britain’s first canal was opened Mar 10, 1771 The first cotton spinning factory was opened Mar 10, 1779 The first steam powered mill began operation Mar 10, 1782 Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine Mar 10, 1801 Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive Mar 10, 1811 The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines schooling Mar 10, 1825 Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened Mar 10, 1831 The first great cholera epidemic Mar 10, 1833 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire Mar 10, 1833 First skyscraper was built in Chicago Mar 10, 1834 Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph Mar 10, 1876 Telephone invented Mar 10, 1879 Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb lightbolbe Mar 10, 1880 Compulsory education for all children is introduced schooling Mar 10, 1885 Karl Benz invented the first automobile Mar 10, 1888 Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves Mar 10, 1889 Wireless radio invented Mar 10, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight first power flight Mar 10, 1914 Outbreak of World War I world war 1
