Historians often say the industrial revolution started around 1750 or 1760. One symbolic moment for the start of the industrial revolution was the morning in 1754 when a scottish teenager named james … Beginning in great britain around 1760, the industrial revolution had spread to continental europe and the united states by about 1840.

About 1764 james hargreaves conceives the idea for a yarn-spinning machine called the spinning jenny (which he patents in 1770).