Iron

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    Coal Mining

  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby
    Uses coke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcole as fuels.
  • Wyatt and Paul

    Wyatt and Paul
    Wyatt and Paul open a mill in Birmingham.
  • Carting Machine

    Carting Machine
    John K. invents a better cart machine to move minerals that had been collected.
  • Matthew Boulton

    Matthew Boulton
    Matthew Boulton opens his Soho engineering works in Bermingham.
  • Steam Mills

    Steam Mills
    The first steam powered mills began to rise make mining much safer and easier.
  • Steam Locomotive

    Steam Locomotive
    Robert Trevithick demonstrates a steam locomotive. Which helped transport coal and other collected minerals.
  • Robert fulton

    Robert fulton
    robert clermont first seccessful steam boat.
  • Bolten and Leigh RR

    Bolten and Leigh RR
    Opening of the eight-mile long Boleten and Leigh Railways.
  • railway

    railway
    this was the opening of the first eight mile railway
  • charles parsons

    charles parsons
    charles patents the first steam turbine