Arkwright's water frame
1769 · Event
Richard Arkwright's water-powered spinning frame and Cromford mill model the factory system.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
- Abraham Darby's coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
Around 1769
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)