Timeline of the Industrial Revolution By adocarmo1 Period: Jan 1, 1740 to Jan 1, 1920 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1750 Enclosures of farming land accelerated in Britain Jan 1, 1767 James hargreaves invents spinning jenny Jan 1, 1779 Richard Arkwright invents the water frame Jan 1, 1779 Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule Jan 1, 1781 James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinery Jan 1, 1783 Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron Apr 19, 1785 Edmund Cartwright, Power loom Apr 19, 1788 First Fleet in Botany Bay Apr 19, 1790 First Textilefactory in USA Apr 19, 1829 George Stephenson, The rocket - a working locomotive Apr 19, 1830 Gas street ligting common in Britain Apr 19, 1838 Brunel's stramship, the Great Western, crosses atlantic Apr 19, 1844 Samuel Morse, first successful telegraph mssage Apr 19, 1853 US warships visit Japan Apr 19, 1856 Bassemer process enables mass production of steel Apr 19, 1869 Suez Canal opens Apr 19, 1871 Unification accelerates industrialisation of Germany Apr 19, 1872 Overland Telegraph connects Australia to Asia Apr 19, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, Telephone Apr 19, 1879 Thomas Edison, First reliable electric light bulb Apr 19, 1889 Eifel Tower completed in France Apr 19, 1903 Wroght brothers invent modern Flight Apr 19, 1904 trans-Siberian railway accelerates Russian industrialisation Apr 19, 1913 Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford
