Industrial Revolutions By mitchell.connors.00@tased.edu.au Mar 5, 1712 Thomas Newcomen Built the first steam engine Mar 5, 1761 Britan's first naval was opened Mar 5, 1771 The first cotton spinning factory was opened Mar 5, 1779 The first steam powered mill began operation Mar 5, 1782 Matthew Boulton and James Watt patended the first rotary steam engine Mar 5, 1801 Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive Mar 5, 1811 The "Luddites" began to destroy machines Mar 5, 1825 Britian's first passenger team rail was opened Mar 5, 1831 The first grat cholera epidemic Mar 5, 1833 Slavery was abolished throuhout the British Empire Mar 5, 1834 Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph Mar 5, 1876 Telephone invented Mar 5, 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb 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, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight Mar 5, 1914 Outbreak of World War I
