Key Moments In The Industrial Revolution By Bradley.Huett.00@tased.edu.au Feb 27, 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine Feb 27, 1761 Britain’s first canal was opened Feb 27, 1771 The first cotton spinning factory was opened Feb 27, 1779 The first steam powered mill began operation Feb 27, 1782 Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine Dec 24, 1801 Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/richard-trevithicks-first-steam-carriage' Feb 27, 1811 The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines http://www.luddites200.org.uk/theLuddites.html' Feb 27, 1825 Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=219' Feb 27, 1831 The first great cholera epidemic http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/p-health/cholera3.htm' Feb 27, 1833 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm' Mar 5, 1834 Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph Mar 5, 1838 Charles Dickens Wrote Oliver Twist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Du2mQpQNeY Mar 5, 1856 Tasmania Established as a British Colony Mar 5, 1859 Sheffield Was Established Mar 5, 1876 Telephone invented Mar 5, 1879 Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb Mar 5, 1880 Compulsory education for all children is introduced Mar 5, 1883 First skyscraper was built in Chicago Mar 5, 1885 Karl Benz invented the first automobile Mar 5, 1888 Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves Mar 5, 1889 Wireless radio invented Mar 5, 1889 the eiffel tower was finished http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayH8ZCfY1_k Mar 5, 1901 Federation of Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjlj3KKKAlA Mar 5, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight Mar 5, 1914 Outbreak of World War I
