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Time line of the industry

  • THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

    THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

    The First Industrial Revolution began in the United Kingdom, specifically in the year 1760, thanks to scientific advances that were combined with a search for new production methods, subsequently spreading to the rest of Europe and the United States.
  • INTERMITTENT SPINNER

    INTERMITTENT SPINNER

    The textile industry was the field in which the age of machinery began. The first invention was the spinning wheel, invented by James Hargreaves in 1767. This spinning machine was named “Jenny” in honor of the inventor's wife.
  • STEAM ENGINE

    STEAM ENGINE

    Scotsman James Watt's steam engine was invented in 1765 and patented in 1769. Watt's engines were built in 1774 by a company owned by the inventor in partnership with English businessman Matthew Boulton.
  • POWER LOOM

    POWER LOOM

    Designed by Edmund Cartwright in 1784 and produced in 1785, the power loom was accepted as the main development linked to the industrial revolution. With this development, efficiency in the textile industry increased about 40 to 50 times, resulting in enormous textile production.
  • STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

    STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

    In this format, visitors will be able to see the first steam locomotive, built by the English engineer Richard Trevithick in 1803, and the Rocket, manufactured in 1829 by George Stephenson
  • FIRST STEAMBOATS

    FIRST STEAMBOATS

    A steamboat consists of a maritime vehicle propelled by a steam-based engine. This type of engines, although it is true that they are in disuse, have great versatility, since they are capable of generating steam with different energy sources, such as firewood or coal.
  • THE STEEL INDUSTRY

    THE STEEL INDUSTRY

    Steel or steel metallurgy is the technique of treating iron ore to obtain different types of iron or its alloys such as steel. The transformation process of iron ore begins from its extraction in the mines.
  • THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE

    THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE

    The first car in history was finally built in 1885: the Benz 1 tricycle, a motorized three-wheeled vehicle invented by Carl Benz, founder of Benz & Cie. A company that later became Mercedes-Benz.
  • PANAMA CANAL

    PANAMA CANAL

    The Panama Canal is a navigation channel located between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Crosses the narrowest point of the isthmus of Panama.
  • INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION COMES TO MEXICO

    INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION COMES TO MEXICO

    Mexico went from being a backward agrarian society to an industrial nation. Industry displaced agriculture as the main employer of labor. The industrial, commercial and service sectors became the most influential in the economy.
  • INDUSTRIAL MEXICO DEVEPLOMENT

    INDUSTRIAL MEXICO DEVEPLOMENT

    During the period 1940-1970, the Mexican economy grew at an average rate of 6% annually, which was reflected in an average increase of 3% in per capita product. This was of singular importance because it occurred at a time of intense demographic dynamism.
  • BLAST FURNANCES IN MEXICO

    BLAST FURNANCES IN MEXICO

    Altos Hornos de México, S.A.B. of C.V. is a steel plant in Mexico. It has corporate offices in Monclova, Coahuila, in the center of the Mexican state of Coahuila, 155 miles from the border with the United States.
  • GREATER INDUSTRIAL DYNAMISN

    GREATER INDUSTRIAL DYNAMISN

    Mexico has the ninth-largest economy in the world. Its main industries are food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, and tourism. It is a major exporter of silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton, oil and oil products.
  • PRODUCTICITY DOUBLES BETWEEN 1948 AND 1971

    PRODUCTICITY DOUBLES BETWEEN 1948 AND 1971

    The link between productivity growth and real incomes has weakened. In the postwar boom from 1948–70, incomes grew at 3.0 percent annually, 3. while productivity growth averaged 2.8 percent. More recently, real incomes have grown at 0.7 percent, well below the 1.4 percent gains in productivity
  • THE SPANISH INDUSTRY IN 1980

    THE SPANISH INDUSTRY IN 1980

    This is a set of economic policy measures undertaken in Spain at the beginning of the 1980s to revive companies in crisis in certain sectors, the foundations of which were laid by the Moncloa Pacts signed in 1978 by the country's main political forces.