The Industrial Revoltioun timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Dec 30, 1740 to Dec 30, 1920

Timeline of the Industrial Revoltuion
Dec 30, 1750

Enclosing of farming land accelerate in Britain
Dec 30, 1767

James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
Dec 30, 1769

Richard Arkwright invents the water frame
Dec 30, 1779

Samuel Crompton invents the spinnning mule
Dec 30, 1781

James Watt invents a steam engine to drive machinery
Dec 30, 1783

Henry Cort invents puddling to produce wrought iron
Dec 30, 1785

Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Dec 30, 1788

First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay
Dec 30, 1790

First textile factory built in the USA
Dec 30, 1829

George Stephenson develops the 'Rocket' a working locomtive
Dec 30, 1830

Gas street lighting common in Britain
Dec 30, 1838

Brunel's steamship 'The Great Western' crosses the Atlantic
Dec 30, 1844

Sumuel Morse sends first successful telegaph meaage
Dec 30, 1853

US warships visit Japan
Dec 30, 1856

Bessemer process enables mass production of steel
Dec 30, 1869

Suez Canal opens
Dec 30, 1871

Unification acceleration of Germany
Dec 30, 1872

Overland Telegraph connects Australia to Asia
Dec 30, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Dec 30, 1879

Thomas Edison invents the first reliable electric light bulb
Dec 30, 1889

Eiffel Tower completed in France
Dec 30, 1903

Wright Brothers invent modern flight
Dec 30, 1904

Trans-Silberian Railway accelerates Russian industrialisation
Dec 30, 1913

Henry Ford mass produces the Model T Ford