Industrial Revolution Timeline
| 1698 | Thomas savery invents a steam-driven pump to remove water from mine shafts |
| 1701 | Jethro tull invents the seed drill freeing agriculture labor and lowering crop price |
| 1712 | The Newcomen steam engine. |
| 1733: | John Kay invents the flying shuttle. |
| 1764: | James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. |
| 1740 | Henry Bessemer discovers the crucible steel making process |
| 1769: | Richard Arkwright patents the water frame. James Watt patents a series of improvements on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient. |
| 1779: | Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule. |
| 1785: | Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom. |
| 1785-1799 | Mass production of interchangeable parts process is developed in the arms industry in the United States led by Eli Whitney |
| 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 |
| 1832 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 double the electorate in England and gives representation to new industrial cities.Control of the House of Commons passes to the industrial middle class |
| 1836 | Samule F.B. Morse invents the telegraph |