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Invented the seed drill
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Kay patented his "New Engine of Machine for Opening and Dressing Wool". This machine included the Flying Shuttle.
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Hargreaves built what became known as the Spinning-Jenny.
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Adam Smith published Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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Patented a steam locomotive
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Invented the power loom
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William Wiberforce delivers first major abolition speech before the House of Commons.
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The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe
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It was invented by Eli Whitney
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Robert Owen purchases a cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland. He begins to reshape working and living conditions for his employees.
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Received the first U.S. patent issued to a woman. The industrial revolution of the 19th century and the emergence of machinery to the work force sparked the women’s movement in Europe. Therefore the excuse of the physical difference between men and women was no longer valid due to the replacement of the laborer’s (male) strong arms with machines. Women entered the work force.
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Invented the reaper.
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One of the most obvious successes of the 1832 act was that it removed from the political set-up the oddities that were rotten boroughs.
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John Deere created the first seed plow.
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Elias Howe
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Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Thomas Edison
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Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912)
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) popularized the use of the term totalitarianism (notably in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism) in order to illustrate the commonalities between Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
