Industrial Revolution
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Updated: 6 Feb 2019
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Created byAlex Hochreiter
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First Central Bank established in EnglandThomas Newcomen invented the first productive steam engine.John Lombe starts his silk factory.James Kay invented the Flying Shuttle, a simple weaving machine.James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, which allowed one worker to spin eight spindlesRichard Arkwright invented the water frame, which hooked up spinning machines to a water wheel.James Watt patented his revision of the steam engine, featuring a separate condenser.Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule which combined spinning and weaving into one machine.Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations.Watt adapts his steam engine from a reciprocal to a rotary motion.Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, which, after 1800 was powered by new steam engines. Replaced the flying shuttle.Henry Cort invented highly successful iron refining techniques.Carkwright changes his huge factories over from water power to steam engines.Combination Acts make it illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay or better working conditions.10 million tons of coal mined in Great Britain.Richard Trevithick drives the Cornish “puffer” steam powered locomotive down the street of Camborne, England.Luddite Rebellion begins.Parliament passes law making it illegal by penalty of death to destroy industrial machines.14 Luddites hanged in Manchester after a rushed one-day trial.George Stephenson patented a steam engine locomotive that ran on rails.Stephenson commissioned to construct a 30-mile railway from Liverpool to Manchester.Stephenson’s Rocket wins the speed contest on the new Liverpool to Manchester railroad. 51 miles of railroad track in Great Britain and the entire world.Sadler Committee investigates child labor in factories and issues report to Parliament.
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