Timeline: Industrial Revolution

• 1769
  James Watt patents his development of the steam engine.
• 1784
  James Watt and Matthew Boulton perfect their development of the steam engine.
• 1811 - 1816
  The Luddites, who smashed textile machines, are active in Britain.
• 1821
  Michael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.
• 1825 - 1843
  Construction of the Thames Tunnel.
• Oct 1829
  Stephenson's Rocket locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials to become the engine for the Liverpool to Manchester railway line.
• 1837
  William Fothergill Cook and Charles Wheatstone first patent the electrical telegraph.
• 1839
  The steam hammer is invented by James Nasmyth.
• 24 May 1844
  Samuel Morse uses his morse code electrical telegraph for the first time.
• Jun 1860
  SS Great Eastern makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
• 1866
  The SS Great Eastern lays the first transatlantic electrical telegraph cable.
• 1873
  Laws of electromagnetism defined by James Clerk Maxwell.