Timeline of the industrial revolution (timeline)

1645-1851
1645- John Winthrop and Richard Leader build factories to convert bog-ore to iron in Massachusetts
1730- First canal in New York state across the Mohawk river
1776- New York state installs a stem powered engine in its waterworks
1784- The Pennsylvania Packet becomes the first daily news in the USA
1786- John Firch attempts to build a steam powered boat, Philadelphia printers stage first industry-wide strike, Bridge over the Charles river in Boston, Massachusetts is complete
1791- Samuel Slater and David Wilkinson reproduce Arkwrights water-spinning frame in Pawtwket, Rhode Island
1792- Pennsylvania builds the first stone and gravel road
1793- Eli Whittney invents the cotton gin(in ten years "king cotton" became the south’s most important crop), John and Arthur Scofield build a factory in Newbury port, Massachusetts, Middle-Sex canal is incorporated
1807- The Jefferson Embargo act eliminates French and English imports,
American trade suffers, Many New England seamen lose their jobs and look for factory work
1808- Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin proposes the information of an interstate waterway
1813- Francis Cabot Lowell incorporates the Massachusetts company and begins textile plant in Waltham, Massachusetts
1825- Erie Canal is completed
1829- Americas first steam locomotive, "Tom Thumb", races against a horse
1835- Lowell, Massachusetts lock and canal company shifts from making textile machinery to locomotive parts
1837- "Panic of 1837" Americas economy begins to fail
1844- Sarah G. Bagley organizes the Lowell Female reform association, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Cornell demonstrate the first telegraph system
1846- Elias Howe builds the first sewing machine
1851- The USA is 75 years old, Isaac singer adds foot treadle to sewing machine