Industrial Revolution Timeline 17001b

Utilitarianism

Feb 16, 1700

John Stuart Mill

Jeremy Bentham

Feb 15, 1748

Jeremy Bentham introduced the philosophy of utilitarianism

Adam Smith

Feb 15, 1776

Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations

Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin

Feb 15, 1793

Capitalism

Feb 16, 1798

Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo

Robert Fulton

Feb 16, 1807

Used a steamboat to ferry passengers, thus adding to its success

Cyrus McCormick invented the Reaper

Feb 15, 1831

Factory Act of 1833

Feb 18, 1833

Made it illegal to hire children under 9 years of age. Children 9 to 12 could not work more than 8 hours a day. Ages 13 to 17 could not work more than 12 hours.

Samuel F. B. Morse first sent electrical signals over a Telegraph

Feb 15, 1837

Communism

Feb 16, 1848

Marx published the Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

Feb 15, 1849

Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto

U.S Public Scools

Feb 18, 1850

First Public Schools are established

I. M. Singer improved the sewing machine by inventing a Foot Treadle

Feb 15, 1851

Jane Addams

Feb 16, 1860

Jane Addams ran settlement houses which are community centers that served the poor

Emancipation Proclamation

Feb 16, 1863

Freed slaves in America

Andrew Carnegie

Feb 16, 1865

Steel mill owner contributed much to industrialization

Graham Bell patented the Telephone

Feb 15, 1876

Thomas Edison invented the Electric Light Bulb

Feb 15, 1879

International Council for Women

Feb 18, 1888

Women activists around the world joined to found the International Council for Women