Industrial revolution by dragonwinter

Industrial Revolution

By gagandeepjhand

  • Rev. William Lee invents the Stocking Frame

    It was used traditionally for Framework knitting, and it was the first major stage in the mechanisation of the textile industry.
  • Period: to

    The Industrial Revolution

  • Languedoc Canal connects the Mediterranean with the Bay of Biscay

    The largest canal project between Roman times and the nineteenth century

  • Jethro Tull's mechanical (seed) sower

    permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows

  • Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore

    replacing wood and charcoal as fuel

  • Thomas Newcomen builds first commercially successful steam engine.

    Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power source other than wind and water.

  • John Kay's flying shuttle.

    an improvement to looms that enabled the weaver to weave faster

  • First threshing machine.

    allowed for the seperation of grain from stalks and husks

  • James Brindley's Bridgewater Canal opens.

    Barges carry coal from Worsley to Manchester.

  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny

    automating weaving the warp (in the weaving of cloth)

  • Arkwright's "water" (powered) frame

    automates the weft

  • Bridgewater Canal extended to the Mersey, thus connecting with Liverpool.

    Its success kicks off extensive canal construction ("canal mania").

  • Watt's first efficient steam engine

    Much more efficient than the Newcomen.

  • Grand Trunk Canal establishes a cross-England route

    Connecting the Mersey to the Trent and connecting the industrial Midlands to the ports of Bristol, Liverpool, and Hull.

  • First steam powered mills.

    Crompton's "mule" combines Hargreaves' and Arkwright's machines, fully automating the weaving process.

  • Arkwright puts a Watt engine in the Albion cotton mill, Blackfriars Bridge, London.

  • Cartwright builds a power loom.

  • Thames-Severn Canal links the Thames to the Bristol Channel.

  • William Murdock (James Watt's assistant) lights his home with coal gas.

  • Eli Whitney develops his cotton gin (a device to clean raw cotton).

  • Thomas Telford builds his two great iron aqueducts, over the Dee and the Cierog valleys.

  • Robert Trevithick demonstrates a steam locomotive.

  • Thomas Telford builds his two great iron aqueducts, over the Dee and the Cierog valleys.

  • Caledonian Ship Canal cuts clear across Scotland via the Great Glen.

  • Robert Fulton's Clermont first successful steamboat.

  • Luddite riots

    laborers attack factories and break up the machines they fear will replace them.

  • Luddite riots

    laborers attack factories and break up the machines they fear will replace them.

  • Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation

    The principle of the electric motor.

  • Caledonian Ship Canal cuts clear across Scotland via the Great Glen.

  • Marc Brunel invents a tunnelling shield

    Making subaqueous tunnelling possible

  • Brunel builds the first subaqueous tunnel, under the Thames.

  • Berkeley Ship Canal connects Sharpness (on the Severn) to Gloucester.

  • The Liverpool and Manchester Railway begins

    first regular commercial rail service

  • Faraday discovers electro-magnetic current,

    making possible generators and electric engines.

  • Charles Babbage develops his analytic engine--the forerunner of the computer. Fox Talbot produces photographs.

  • Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code. Great Western--first ocean-going steamship.

  • Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype.

  • Fox Talbot introduces photographic paper.

  • Brunel builds the first subaqueous tunnel, under the Thames.

  • Great Britain--first large, iron, screw-propelled steamship.

  • Commercial use of Morse's telegraph (Baltimore to Washington).

  • Pneumatic tire patented First telegraph cable laid under the Channel.

  • Monier develops reinforced concrete.

  • Petrol (gasoline) refining first used. Natural Science Honours School established at Oxford.

  • Singer invents first practical sewing machine. Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge.

  • Bessemer invents steel converter.

  • Regius Chair of Technology founded at Edinburgh.

  • W.H. Perkin produces aniline dyes

    permitting brightly colored cottons

  • Pasteur experiments with fermentation.

  • First Trans-Atlantic Cable completedCathode rays discovered.

  • Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species. Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania. Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine.

  • Science degrees at University of London.

  • Siemens-Martin open hearth process (along with the Bessemer converter) makes steel available in bulk

    Steel begins to replace iron in building: steel framing and reinforced concrete make possible "curtain-wall" architecture--i.e., the skyscraper.

  • Alfred Nobel produces dynamite

    the first high explosive which can be safely handled.

  • Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter. James Clerk Maxwell states the laws of electro-magnetic radiation

  • Bell invents the telephone.

  • Edison invents the phonograph.

  • Microphone invented.

  • Edison invents the incandescent lamp.

  • First skyscraper (ten stories) in Chicago. The Brooklyn Bridge opens.

    This large suspension bridge, built by the Roeblings (father and son), is a triumph of engineering.

  • Maxim invents the machine gun

    making possible mass slaughter and beginning the mechanization of warfare.

  • Benz develops first automobile to run on internal- combustion engine.

  • Hertz produces radio waves.

  • Eiffel Tower.

  • Rudolf Diesel invents his namesake.

  • Lumière brothers develop Cinematograph. Roentgen discovers X-rays.

  • Marconi patents wireless telegraph.

  • Joseph Thomson discovers particles smaller than atoms.

  • Aspirin invented.

  • First Zeppelin built.

  • Marconi transmits first trans-Atlantic radio message (from Cape Cod).

  • Wright brothers make first powered flight.

  • Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.