THE ORIGINS OF INDUSTRIALISATION By Laura Batlle 1730 Rotherham plough. 1733 Kay's flying shuttle. 1764 Spinning machine- Spinning jenny. 1769 Watt's steam engine. 1776 Adam smith: The Wealth of Nations. 1780 Threshing machine. 1785 Cartwright's power loom. 1807 First commercial steam boat. 1811 Luddism (1811-1817). 1824 Mechanical reaper. 1825 First trade unions. 1829 Stephenson's steam locomative. 1834 Grand National Consolidated Trade Union. 1855 Bessemer converter steel manufacturing. 1864 First international.