key inventions from the industrial revolution By demi.bird.00 Mar 13, 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine Mar 13, 1761 Britain’s first canal was opened Mar 13, 1771 The first cotton spinning factory was opened cotton Mar 13, 1779 The first steam powered mill began operation Mar 13, 1782 1782 – MatthewBoulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine steam engine Mar 19, 1801 Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive Mar 19, 1811 The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines Mar 19, 1825 Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened Mar 19, 1831 The first great cholera epidemic Mar 19, 1833 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire Mar 19, 1834 Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph first photograph Mar 19, 1876 Telephone invented telephone Mar 19, 1879 Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb lightbulb Mar 19, 1880 Compulsory education for all children is introduced compulsary education Mar 19, 1883 First skyscraper was built in Chicago first skyscraper Mar 19, 1885 Karl Benz invented the first automobile Mar 19, 1888 Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves Mar 19, 1889 Wireless radio invented Mar 19, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight Mar 19, 1914 Outbreak of World War I
