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The first factory ever opened
the first documented factory was opened by John Lombe in Derby -
Arkwright's Water Frame spinning machine
In 1760 Richard Arkwright and John Kay managed to produced this working machine -
Watt Steam Engine
The Watt Steam Engine was created by James Watt -
The Power Loom
It was introduced in 1874 by Edmund Cartwright who built the very first working machine in 1785 -
Gaslighting
Commercial gas lighting was first developed and introduced in 1792 by William Murdoch -
The Cotton Jin
Created my Eli Witney -
Spectrometer
In 1814, a German inventor, Joseph von Fraunhofer invented the spectrometer -
Portland Cement
Joseph Aspdin was a bricklayer turned builder who, in 1824, devised and patented a chemical process for making Portland Cement. -
Camera Obscura: The first photograph
In 1827 Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce successfully produced the first, long-lasting image -
Typewriter
in 1829, William Austin Burt patented the "first typewriter" which he termed a "Typographer“