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Jeremy Bentham was involved with utilitarianism.
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John Kay invented the flying shuttle in 1733.
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James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in 1764.
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James Watt invented the first efficient steam engine in 1765.
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Richard Arkwright invented the water frame in 1769.
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Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo were all involved with capitalism.
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Sameul Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779.
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Samuel Slater emigrated to the United States and built a spinning machine from memory.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
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William Cockerill went to Belgium and carried a secret plan for building a spinning machine and his son eventually built a huge industrial enterprise in eastern Belgium.
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Industrialization began in the textile industry in the U.S.
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Richard Trevithick won a bet of several thousand dollars by hauling ten tons of iron over ten miles of track in a steam-driven locomotive.
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Parliament passed a bill to end the slave trade in the British West Indies in 1807.
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Francis Cabot Lowell revolutionized the American textile industry.
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George Stephenson began work on the first railroad line that ran 27 miles from Yorkshire coalfields to the port of Stockton.
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Parliament passed the Factory Act of 1833 that made it illegal to hire children under the age of 9.
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Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a work of fiction, Mary Barton, that described the terrible place a family in Manchester lived and what life and living was like during this time.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles were involved with communism.
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Women who wanted rights joined the movement for women's rights which began in the United States in 1848.
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Charles Fourier and Saint Simon were involved with socialism.
