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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
Jethro Tull noticced that there was somthing he could do about the common way of sowing seeds; scattering them across the ground. He saw that this method was not affective and half the seeds didn't even root. He solved this problem in 1701 by creating the seed drill. -
John Kay invents flying shuttle
John Kay, a machimist, invented thing that sped back on forth on wheels that he called the "shuttle". They called it the flying shuttle and it doubled the work that a weaver could accomplish in one day's work. -
James Watt builds the first steam engine
James Watt, a mathematical instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, studied a new way to make the steam engine more effective, less expensive, and using less fuel. In 1765 he had got the job done. Before this the miners used a steam engine that took up a huge amount of space and also used a huge amount of fuel which was very expensive. -
Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
Marx, a German journalist, and his friend Engels, a German whose father owned a textile mill in Manchester wrote a "pamphlet" calledThe Communist Manifesto." The two men argued that human societies always were divided into classes. And also that the Industrial Revolution enriched the wealthy and brought down the poor. -
US Civil War ends; US experiences technological boom
Although some poeple were antislavery and others thought of it as an economic threat, the Africans enslavement in the United States ended when the union won the Civil War. In the late 1800's the United States expirienced a technological boom all because Britain had iron, oil, coal, and a burst of inventions occured. -
Germany becomes dominant industrial power in Europe
Germany was originally politically divided, having economic isolation and scattered resources. In 1835, they they statred to "copy" Brittain. They started to import quipment and engineers of Brittain. The German manufacturers sent their children to England to learn about the industrial management. And their most important job was to connect railroads to the cities. -
British Unions win right to strike
British Unions had shared their goals of improving working conditions, and also raising their wages. In 1875 their union, with approximately 1 million people, won the right to strike.
