The First Industrial Revolution: Textiles and Steam: 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
- James Watt patents a series of improvement on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient
1779- Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule
1785- Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
1793- Eli Whitney patenets the cotton gin
1807- Robet Fulton begine steamboat serive on the Hudson River
1830- Geroge Stephenson beginning rail service between Liverpool and London
The second Industrial Revolution:1875-1905
1840- Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service
1856- Henry Bessemer delvelops the Bessemer converter
1859- The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnance.
The Second Industrial Revolution: Electicity and Chemicals: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
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