Industrial Revolution Timeline
| 1712 | The Newcomen steam engine. |
| 1769 | Richard Arkwright patents the water frame. James Watt patents a series of improvements on the Newcomen engine making it more efficient. |
| 1830 | George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London. |
| 1840 | Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service. |
| 1856 | Henry Bessemer develops the Bessemer converter. |
| 1859 | The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania. |
| 1866 | The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace. |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone |
| 1879 | Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb. |
| 1903 | The Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight. |