| 1712-1830 | 1712: The Newcomen steam engine. 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle. 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. 1769: Richard Arkwright patents the water frame. 1779: Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule. 1785: Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom. 1793: Eli Whitney patenets the cotton gin. 1807: Robert Fulton begins steamboat service on the Hudson River. 1830: George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London. |
| 1840-1875 | 1840: Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service. 1856: Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter. 1859: The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania. 1866: The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace. |
| 1875-1905 | 1836: Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph. 1866: Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic cable. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. 1879: Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb. 1892: Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine. 1899: Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless. 1903:The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight. |