industrial revolution
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Updated: 15 May 2018
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First Central Bank established in EnglandThomas Newcomen invented the first productive steam engine.James Kay invented the Flying ShuttleJohn Lombe starts his silk factoryJames Hargreaves invented the Spinning JennyJames Watt patented his revision of the steam engineSamuel Crompton invented the spinning muleAdam Smith published The Wealth of NationsWatt adapts his steam engine from a reciprocal to a rotary motionEdmund Cartwright invented the power loomHenry Cort invented highly successful iron refining techniqueArkwright 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 BritainRichard Trevithick drives the
Cornish “puffer” steam powered
locomotive down the street of Camborne, England.Luddite Rebellion beginsParliament 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.The first Factory Act provides first small regulation of child labor in textile factoriesPoor Law created “poorhouses” for the destitute.106,000 power looms operating in Great Britain.Friedrich Engels publishes his
observations of the negative effects
of industrialization in The Condition
of the Working-Class in England.British government sets up the
General Board of Health to investigate
sanitary conditions, setting up local
boards to ensure safe water in cities.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.10,000 people die in three months in London from Cholera epidemic.6,031 miles of railroad track in Great Britain.Public Health Act gives government responsibility to ensure public health for housing and sewage.Education Act made school compulsory for children up to age 10.90% of all ships in the world are built in Great Britain.35,00 miles of railroad track in Great Britain.This Factory Act raised the minimum work age to 12 years old.236 million tons of coal mined in Great Britain.Education Act made school compulsory for children up to age 14.English government mandates and funds compulsory education for all citizens through age 18.
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