THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION By CristianChafer 1730 Rotherham plough 1733 Kay's flying shuttle 1764 Spinning machine and Spinning jenny 1769 Watt's steam enigme 1776 Adam Smith: the Wealth of nations 1780 Threshing machine 1785 Cartwright's power loom 1807 First commercial steam boat Period: 1811 to 1817 Luddism 1824 Mechanical reaper 1825 First trade unions 1829 Stephenson's steam locomotive 1834 Grand National Consolidated Trade Union 1855 Bessemer converter steel manufacturing 1864 First International