======+=================+=================+=================+================= YEAR.| ENGLAND. | FRANCE. | GERMANY. | INTERNATIONAL. ------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------- 1750-|Notable | | | 1800 |inventions of | | | |modern | | | |machinery: | | | |(1764-75. | | | |Spinning machine.| | | |1780. | | | |The puddling | | | |process. | | | |1785-90. | | | |The machine loom.| | | |1790. | | | |Steam engine. | | | |1799. | | | |Paper machine.) | | | |Rapid development| | | |of the great | | | |centres of | | | |industry. | | | |"Machine Riots." | | | |Petitions to | | | |forbid legally | | | |machines and | | | |manufactories, | | | |and to | | | |reintroduce the | | | |Elizabethan trade| | | |ordinances. | | | |Laws for the | | | |protection of | | | |machines. | | | | | | | 1776 |Adam Smith | | | |(1723-90). | | | |"Wealth of | | | |Nations." | | | | | | | 1796 | |Babeuf's | | | |conspiracy, or | | | |"The Equals." | | | | | | 1800 |Robert Owen | | | |(1771-1858; chief| | |