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Invented by Jethro Tull
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Invented by John Kay
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Invented by James Hargreaves
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Invented by Richard Arkwright
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Matthew Boulton invested time and money in James Watt
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Ideas of capitalism were published by Adam Smith in his book "The Wealth of Nations"
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Invented by Samuel Crompton
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Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher, modifyed the ideas of Adam Smith and came up with the idea that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions based on their usefulness.
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Invented by Edmund Cartwright
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Samuel Slater built a spinning machine from memory in the United States
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William Cockerill came to Belgium with secret plans for spinning machines
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British roads were improved by the efforts of a Scottish engineer named John McAdam
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French reformers named Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon believed the factors of production should be owned by the people and opperate for the welfare of all
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Francis Cabot Lowell (and 4 other investors) mechanized every stage of the production of cloth
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William Wilberforce, along with other powerful people in Parliament fought to abolish slavery in the English empire and gained its full abolishment in 1833 but abolishment began in 1807
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An Act passed by Parliament in 1833 that made it illegal for factories to hire children under the age of 9
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Elizabeth Gaskell wrote "Mary Barton", a fictional story about realistic conditions in Manchester slums
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In their pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto" Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described a type of complete socialism with no government, no private property, and the factors of production belonged to everyone.
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Women begin to form unions in the trades they dominated, like textile mills
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The Industrial Revolution led to an expansion of railroads in the United States. The number of miles of railroad went from 2,818 to 208,152 in 50 years
