Industrial Revolution
Explore Industrial Revolution on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
- Abraham Darby's coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
- Second Industrial Revolution (1870)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Invention of the telephone (1876)
- James Watt (1736)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Cartwright's power loom (1785)
- Bessemer process patented (1856)
- Trevithick's first steam locomotive (1804)
- Crompton's spinning mule (1779)
- George Stephenson (1781)
- John Kay's flying shuttle (1733)
- Luddite uprisings (1811)
- Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (1851)
- Henry Cort patents the puddling process (1784)
- Bridgewater Canal opens (1761)
- Chartism / People's Charter (1838)
- Boulton and Watt rotative engine (1782)
- Ford's moving assembly line (1913)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)