Industrial and Social Revolutions Dates
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qralex on May 16, 2011
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western civilization in transition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1600 | Enclosure movement in England accelerates |
| 1712 | Thomas Newcomen invents the steam engine |
| 1733 | John Kay invents the flying shuttle |
| 1769 | James Watt patented the modern steam engine |
| 1776 | Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations |
| 1779 | Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule |
| 1784 | The factory system begins |
| 1785 | Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin |
| 1803 | John Dalton outlines method of "weighing" atoms |
| 1808 | Robert Fulton begins inland steam service |
| 1814 | George Stephenson invents the locomotive |
| 1831 | Michael Faraday produces electric current in wire |
| 1848 | Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| 1866 | Transatlantic cable is laid |
| 1869 | Dmitry Mendeleyev develops first workable classification of the elements |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 1884 | Mart Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| 1893 | First successful gasoline-driven automobile is built in the United States |
| 1895 | Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays |
| 1897 | J.J. Thomson discovers the electron |
| 1901 | United States Steel Company forms |
| 1903 | The Wright brothers make first successful airplane flight |
| 1905 | Albert Einstein develops the special theory of relativity |
| 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
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