Match the date and the event.
1. 1600-
2. 1709-
3. 1712-
4. 1719-
5. 1733-
6. 1750-
7. 1761-
8. 1764-
9. 1764-
10. 1769-
11. 1769-.
12. 1774-
13. 1779-
14. 1784-
15. 1785-
16. 1790-
17. 1799-
18. 1800-
1. Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine.
2. Scottish inventor James Watt is commissioned to carry out repairs to a Thomas Newcomen steam engine and quickly recognises ways that it can be modified to operate much more efficiently.
3. The silk factory is started by John Lombe.
4. The power loom was invented, designed the previous year by Edmund Cartwright, who subsequently patented the mechanised loom which used water to increase the productivity of the weaving process.
5. The invention of the Spinning Jenny by James Hargreaves in Lancashire.
6. The opens, the first of its kind in Britain. It was named after Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater who commissioned it in order to transport the coal from his mines in Worsley.
7. Cotton cloths were being produced using the raw cotton imported from overseas. Cotton exports would help make Britain a commercial success.
8. Edmund Cartwright produced another invention called a wool combing machine. He patented the invention which arranged the fibres of wool.
9. The power loom was invented, designed the previous year by Edmund Cartwright, who subsequently patented the mechanised loom which used water to increase the productivity of the weaving process.
10. James Watt was granted his first British patent (No. 913) for the unique design of his new steam engine.
11. The yarn produced by the new Spinning Jenny was not particularly strong but this soon changed when Richard Arkwright invented the water frame which could attach the spinning machine to a water wheel
12. The inventor Richard Arkwright became an entrepreneur and opened a cotton spinning mill using his invention of the water frame.
13. The formation of the East India Company.
14. a group of English textile workers in Manchester rebelled against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft. This was one of the initial riots that would occur under the Luddite movement.
15. Around 10 million tons of coal had been mined in Britain.
16. Abraham Darby leases the furnace which he successfully uses for the first time. Darby was able to sell 81 tons of iron goods that year.
17. The English inventor Samuel Crompton invented the Spinning Mule which would combine the processes of spinning and weaving into one machine, thus revolutionising the industry.
18. The simple weaving machine is invented by John Kay known as the Flying Shuttle.
