Most important innovations since 1700’s onwards

By KamileSlizinskaite

  • 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“