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Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany. The spinning jenny is a multi- spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764-1765 by James Hargreaves in Stan hill, Oswaldtwistle ...
t. e. The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution. Beginning in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution ...
1760s; 1770s; 1780s; See also: Other events of 1760 List of years in Denmark: Events from the year 1760 in Denmark. Incumbents. Monarch – Frederick V;
Nationality. Belgian. John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 6 September 1735 – 8 May 1803) was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker, and inventor from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in the Holy Roman Empire. [2] [3] [4] He moved to England in 1760. By 1766 he was working with James Cox and creating automatons such ...
First practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of electricity. 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell. 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. 1957: The laser and optical amplifier are invented and named by Gordon Gould and Charles Townes.
The Anglo–Spanish War ( Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War. It lasted from January 1762 until February 1763, when the Treaty of Paris brought it to an end. For most of the Seven Years' War, Spain remained neutral, turning down offers from the French to join ...
James Burgh (1714–1775) was a British Whig politician whose book Political Disquisitions set out an early case for free speech and universal suffrage: in it, he writes, "All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people." He has been judged "one of England's foremost propagandists for radical reform".
