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  • Seed Drill

    Seed Drill

    Jethro Tull
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle

    John Kay
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    Thought of a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.
  • Water Frame

    Water Frame

    Richard Arkwright
  • Matthew Boulton

    Matthew Boulton

    An entrepreneur who encouraged and paid James Watt to build better steam engines.
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule

    Samuel Crompton
  • Utilitarianism

    Utilitarianism

    Jeremy Bentham introduced this philosophy and wrote his most influential works in the late 1700's.
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom

    Edmund Cartwrights
  • Samuel Slater

    Samuel Slater

    Emigrated to the United States and brought over (in his memory) the blueprints to creating the spinning machine.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    American inventor who invented the cotton gin to speed up the amount of cotton to be cleaned.
  • Combination Act

    Combination Act

    Outlawed unions and strikes.
    (also on in 1800)
  • Spinners

    Spinners

    More and more women began working as spinners in the factories, because they seen it as a way to make more money than chores around the house.
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton

    Made the first successful trip in New York's Hudson River with the steam boat
  • Francis Cabot Lowell

    Francis Cabot Lowell

    Revolutionalized the American tetile industry along with four other investors.
  • Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

    Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

    David Ricardo wrote this book in order to promote capitalism.
  • Socialism

    Socialism

    Another way to govern, this way for the welfare of all. Where all factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of the people.
  • Slavery Abolished in England

    Slavery Abolished in England

  • Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Wrote "Mary Barton" which was a fiction story about a family in Manchester's slum, and was and accurate potrayal or urban life at the time.
  • The Communist Manifesto

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx wrote this inorder to promote communism,