Timeline of the Industrial Revolution

1760s: Steam engine was improved.

1764: Spinning jenny was invented.
1793: Cotton gin was invented.

1780: Process of industrialization in Great Britain emerges.

Better iron quality.

1782: Steam power used to spin and weave cotton.

1787:Water powered-loom was introduced by Edmund Cartwright.
1833: Factory Act
Cause: Bad working conditions in factories, including for children.

1840: Great Britain

1850: Railroads crossed much of the country.

Great Britain becomes the world's first industrial nation.
Great Britain’s population had almost doubled.

The new inventions were more efficient as earlier practices. Now these were used in factories.

The map below shows the industrialization taking process through Europe: