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1698 CE: The steam pump is patented by Thomas Savery.
1709 CE: The first working coke blast furnace is used at the Coalbrookdale works in Shropshire.
1710 CE: Thomas Newcomen develops an improved steam pump.
1733 CE: The flying shuttle is invented by John Kay.
1737 CE: The winnowing machine is invented by Andrew Rogers.
1760 CE - 1840 CE: The Industrial Revolution in Britain.
1764 CE: The spinning jenny is invented by James Hargreaves.
1769 CE: James Watt patents his development of the steam engine.
1769 CE: The waterframe is invented by Richard Arkwright.
1770 CE: The marine chronometer is invented by John Harrison.
1779 CE: The spinning mule is invented by Samuel Crompton.
1781 CE: The first cast iron bridge is opened. It crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England.
1784 CE: James Watt and Matthew Boulton perfect their development of the steam engine.
1785 CE: The power loom is invented by Edmund Cartwright.
1787 CE: The first steam-powered threshing machine is invented by Andrew Meikle.
1794 CE - 174 CE: The cotton gin is invented by Eli Whitney.
1806 CE - 1859 CE: Life of the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
1807 CE: Frederick Albert Winsor successfully demonstrates gas street lighting in London.
1811 CE - 1816 CE: The Luddites, who smashed textile machines, are active in Britain.
1818 CE: The milling machine is invented.
1821 CE: Michael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.
1824 CE: Portland cement, a fast-setting cement, is invented by Joseph Aspdin.
1825 CE - 1843 CE: Construction of the Thames Tunnel.
1825 CE: The self-acting mule is invented by Richard Roberts.
1825 CE: The Locomotion 1 train invented by George Stephenson (1781-1848) transports the first railway passengers from Stockton to Darlington.
1829 CE: Isambard Kingdom Brunel submits four designs for Clifton Suspension Bridge, one is accepted.
1829 CE: Stephenson's Rocket locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials to become the engine for the Liverpool to Manchester railway line.
1830 CE - 1832 CE: The Swing Riots sees agricultural machines smashed in Britian.
1837 CE: William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone first patent the electrical telegraph.
1837 CE: The telegraph machine is invented by William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone.
1838 CE: The Great Western Railway line from Bristol to London opens.
1838 CE: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Western is launched.
1839 CE: The steam hammer is invented by James Nasmyth.
1840 CE: The Temple Meads railway station in Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens.
1841 CE: The railway line connecting London to Birmingham opens.
1843 CE: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Britain is officially launched at Bristol.
1844 CE: Samuel Morse uses his morse code electrical telegraph for the first time.
1845 CE: The railway line from London to Manchester opens.
1851 CE: The Great Exhibition is held in London's Crystal Palace.
1854 CE: Paddington Station in London, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens.
1856 CE: the Bessemer converter is invented by Henry Bessemer.
1858 CE: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Eastern is launched.
1860 CE: SS Great Eastern makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
1866 CE: The SS Great Eastern lays the first transatlantic electrical telegraph cable.
1873 CE: Laws of electromagnetism defined by James Clerk Maxwell.