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Saturday, February 11, 2023
Basic timeline of the Industrial Revolution
This post is a basic timeline of the Industrial Revolution. There are 29 inventions listed below chronologically.
- 1678: coal reverberatory furnace
- 1701: improved seed drill
- 1712: atmospheric engine
- 1721: water-powered silk mill
- 1730: Rotherham plough
- 1733: flying shuttle
- 1740s: Huntsman crucible steel process
- 1742: blowing engine
- 1746: lead chamber process
- 1750s: planing machine
- 1764: spinning jenny
- 1769: spinning frame
- 1774: precision boring machine
- 1778: Watt steam engine
- 1779: spinning mule
- 1782: rotary steam engine
- 1783: milling machine
- 1783: rolling process
- 1784: puddling process
- 1784: threshing machine
- 1785: vertical power loom
- 1791: Leblanc process
- 1791: shaping machine
- 1798: paper machine
- 1810s: Cornish engine
- 1812: gas lighting utilities
- 1824: Portland cement
- 1828: hot blast
- 1832: sheet glass
Sources
Wikipedia: Industrial Revolution, Blowing engine, Milling (machine), Newcomen atmospheric engine, Planer (metalworking), Shaper