1794

Josiah Spode began manufacturing bone china.

Introduction of Mason's fly press into the lock making industry enabling the domestic worker to cut parts more easily.

1795

Death of Josiah Wedgwood.

1796

Opening of a foundry in Smethwick by Matthew Boulton and James Watt to manufacture steam engines.

1797

William and John Parkes and John Brookhouse opened a wool spinning mill at Saltisford, Warwick in 1797. They used a Boulton and Watt engine and eventually sold yarn to the Leicestershire hosiery trade and Kidderminster carpet manufacturers.

1798

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth published Practical Education.

1799

William Withering died.

1802

The Soho Works in Handsworth became the first factory to be lit by gas lighting to celebrate the Peace of Amiens.

Thomas Wedgwood, the third son of Josiah Wedgwood I, published "An Account of a Method of copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver" in the Journal of the Royal Institution. He showed how the chemical action of light could be used to produce images. Wedgwood is seen as the first photographer.

Death of Erasmus Darwin in Derbyshire.

The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act became law, the first example of factory legislation.