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It was used predominantly to pump water out from coal mines, allowing the miners to dig further down.

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1764- James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny

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1764- James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny

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The spinning jenny reduced the time required to make thread, it allowed a worker to make six times more thread than with a normal spinning wheel. Thanks to the early mechanisation, British cotton industry doubled its volume every 10 years until 1830.

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Watt’s engine was very similar to Newcomen’s, but it required less fuel to run and was much more efficient, making useful as a power source in factories and other applications.

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It was used to spin cotton and other fibres, it was truly practical and permited a large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread.

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1785- Crude power loom by Edmund Cartwright

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1785- Crude power loom by Edmund Cartwright

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It was the predecessor of the modern power loom, that year Cartwright sets up a weaving and spinning factory in England.

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1793- Samuel Slater establishes a cotton mill in the United States

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1793- Samuel Slater establishes a cotton mill in the United States

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Establishes a cotton mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the first successful cotton mill in the United States.

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1793- Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

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1793- Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

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It was a machine that cleans cotton of its seeds, it was invented in Georgia by Eli Whitney, who later develops the concept of mass production of interchangeable parts.

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1804- The locomotive by Cornishman Richard Trevithick’s

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1804- The locomotive by Cornishman Richard Trevithick’s

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His locomotive carried ten tons of iron, five wagons and seventy men the 9.75 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal in four hours and five minutes. The journey had an average speed of c. 2.4 mph.

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1807- William and John Cockerill, bring the Industrial Revolution to Belgium

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1807- William and John Cockerill, bring the Industrial Revolution to Belgium

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By developing machine shops at Liège. Belgium will become the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economically.

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1811/13- Social opposition to industrialization begins to arise.

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1811/13- Social opposition to industrialization begins to arise.

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Luddites, people opposed to industrialization, attack factories in a number of towns across Great Britain, destroying textile machinery.

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1825- Michael Faraday, Electric generators and electric motors

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1825- Michael Faraday, Electric generators and electric motors

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Michael Faraday demonstrated experimentally that passing an electric current through a coil of wire between two poles of a magnet would cause the coil to turn.

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1826- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first permanent photograph from a camera image.

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1826- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first permanent photograph from a camera image.

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Niépce captured the photograph from his window using a camera obscura, and a pewter plate, having experimented with other materials, it's the earliest surviving photograph of a real-world scene.

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1829- William Burt patented the first typewriter

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1829- William Burt patented the first typewriter

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It was mostly ineffective but Burt is regarded as the ‘father of the typewriter’. The working model of the ‘typographer’. Only 38 years later, in 1867, the first modern typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes.

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1834- Cyrus McCormick invents machines to mechanize farming.

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1834- Cyrus McCormick invents machines to mechanize farming.

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His mechanical reaper, patented in 1834, revolutionizes harvesting, making it quicker and easier.

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1837- Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone demonstrated the first electrical telegraph

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1837- Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone demonstrated the first electrical telegraph

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One of the main figures behind the invention of the telegraph was the American Samuel Morse, who also went on to develop Morse Code to allow the easier transmission of messages across telegraph lines; it is still used to this day.

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It makes the manufacture of clothing less expensive.

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1860- Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel

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1860- Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel

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Before his invention, gunpowder (called black powder) had been used in minery. Dynamite, however, proved stronger and safer, quickly gaining widespread use.

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1876- Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone.

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1876- Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone.

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Networks of telephone lines are built quickly across the United States. Bell had a lifelong commitment to deaf education,

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1878- Incandescent lightbulb by Thomas Edison

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1878- Incandescent lightbulb by Thomas Edison

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Joseph Wilson and later Thomas Edisonindependently invented an incandescent lamp. Electricity is later applied to driving all kinds of machinery. Electric lighting quickly spreads across the United States and is soon adopted in Europe.

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1879- Electric railways and tramways, Werner von Siemens

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1879- Electric railways and tramways, Werner von Siemens

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In early 20th century, electric railways operated within and between several major cities in Europe and the United States. The first electrified section of London’s subway system, called the London Underground, began operation in 1890.

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1903- Orville Wright, first controlled flight

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1903- Orville Wright, first controlled flight

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North Carolina, aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight.