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The seed drill allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths. A much larger share of the seeds took root, boosting crop yields.
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In the textile indusrty, the inventions progressed and a machinist named John Kay made a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels. This flying shuttle, a boat- shaped piece of wood to which yarn was attached, doubled the work a weaver could do in a day.
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The steam engine was the solution to work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel. Watt joined with an entrepreneur who managed his business, Boulton, and together they invented and sold engines.
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Marx, a poor German journalist and Engels, son of a textile mill in Manchester together outlined their ideas of the community and government in their 23- page pamphlet. This pamphlet declares their new way of government, communism.
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US civil war: In the early 1800s, the movement to fufill the promise of the Declaration of Independence by ending slavery. The enslavement of African people ended when the Union won the Civil War in 1865. Us experiences technological boom: After the Civil War ended, the country experienced a technological boom.
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Germany industrialized. By following the Brittish model, they importing British equiptment and engineers. Germany built railroads. Germany's economic strength lead to their superior military power. By the late 1800s, a unified, imperial Germany had become both an industrial and a military giant.
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By 1875, British trade unions had won the right to strike and picket peacefully. They had also built up a membership of about 1 million people.
