| 1700 |
Industrial Revolution Begins with... |
| 1701 |
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill freeing agricultural labor and lowering crop prices |
| 1712 |
Thomas Newcomen develops the first workable steam-powered engine pumping water out of deep coal mines. |
| 1733 |
John Kay invents the Flying Shuttle greatly accelerating the weaving process and beginning the mechanization of the textile industry |
| 1764 |
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
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| 1769 |
Richard Arkwright patents the water frame.
James Watt patents a series of improvements on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient.
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| 1776 |
Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nation |
| 1779 |
Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule.
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| 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 |
| 1836 |
Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph
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| 1840 |
Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service.
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| 1856 |
Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter.
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| 1859 |
The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania
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| 1866 |
The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace
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| 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 |
