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Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. -
Steam Engine
The first steam engine was invented by Thomas Savery in 1698. With the steam engine also came the the steam locomotive and steam boat. -
Robert Bakewell
Robert Bakewell only let his best sheep breed, this created many others to follow his lead, the average weight of a sheep went from 18lbs to 50 lbs. -
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin was a English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. Darwin died in 1802. -
The Flying Shuttle
The Flying Shuttle was invented by John Kay in 1733. -
Seed Drill
The seed drill was invented by Jethro Tull on February 21st, 1741. -
Ben Franklin
Franklin came up with an experiment to prove that electricity and lightning were the same thing. He conducted the experiment by flying a kite in a lightning storm on June 15, 1752. From his experiments he devised the lightning rod. -
Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in 1764. -
Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney on December 8th, 1765. -
Spinning Mule
The Spinning Mule was invented by Samuel Crompton in 1775 -
Robert Bald
One of the earliest and most eminent mining engineers and land surveyors in Scotland. -
Paul Moody
Developed and perfected the first power loom in America, which launched the first successful cotton mill at Waltham, Massachusetts in 1814. -
Capitalism
Capitalism is a economic system in which money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit. Adam Smith was the guy who decided to go about doing this in the 1800s. -
Industrialization in the United States
The Industrialization began in the textile industry. Samuel Slater moved to America. He was a British Mill worker who built a spinning machine from memory. -
Abolition of Slavery
The Act 1833 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire. However only slaves below the age of six were freed, as all slaves over the age of six were redesignated as apprentices. The Act was repealed in 1998. -
Socialism
Socialism is attributed to Pierre Leroux in 1834, who called socialism "the doctrine which would not give up any of the principles of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" of the French Revolution of 1789 or to Marie Roch Louis Reybaud in France, or else in England to Robert Owen. -
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and socio-political worldview that contains within it a political ideology for how to change and improve society by implementing socialism. Marxism was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels back in the mid 1850s. Marx and Engels shared there ideas with eachother about it. -
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is doctrine that the useful is the good. That you need to maximize utility and minimize negative utility. John Stuart Mill inventerd this theory back in 1863. -
Act of 1867
The 1867 Reform Act extended the right to vote still further down the class ladder, adding just short of a million voters — including many workingmen — and doubling the electorate, to almost two million in England and Wales. It, too, created major shock waves in contemporary British culture. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invented the first successful electric light bulb, and he also set up the first electrical power distribution company.
