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Spining jenny
The textile industry was one of the sectors most associated with the Industrial Revolution. The emergence of cotton textiles was play out in the politics and laws of Britain.
Much of what emerged was pivoted around the Calico Act.The British cotton textile manufacturers were protected form Indian cottons in the domestic and colonial market and it was this factor that spurred the innovation in machinary . -
james watt
was a Scottish inventor, engineer, and chemist. He developed a workable steam engine that utilized a separate condenser; this innovation made the steam engine a useful tool for a vast range of uses. In many ways, Watt's invention or rather, his improvement on an earlier invention, the Newcomen steam engine was the technological impetus behind the Industrial Revolution. -
germ theory
germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or germs can lead to disease. These small organisms, too small to see without magnification, invade humans, other animals, and other living hosts. Their growth and reproduction within their hosts can cause disease. -
Automobile
This was a Steam car. It was used as a military tractor for the French army. In 1832, Robert Anderson created the Electric carriage in Scotland., Karl Friedrich Benz created the first car that ran on gas, just like the cars we have today. This car was powered by an internal combustion engine, which meant that it burned fossil fuels This car was three wheeled and was created in Germany. -
cotton gin
The cotton gin, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, the cotton industry by greatly speeding up the tedious process of removing seeds and husks from cotton fiber. Similar to today’s massive machines, Whitney’s cotton gin used hooks to draw unprocessed cotton through a small-mesh screen that separated the fiber from seeds and husks. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is centrally important in the development of scientific and humanist ideas because he first made people aware of their place in the evolutionary process when the most powerful and intelligent form of life discovered how humanity had evolved. The theory of evolution by natural selection was first put forward by Darwin in On the Origin of Species. -
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel is famous for the annual prizes in science, literature, and peace awarded in his name. Early in 1863, Nobel returned from Russia to his hometown of Stockholm. Very soon he began experimenting in a laboratory on a small industrial site his father had taken in Heleneborg, outside the city. -
thomas edison
While Edison worked for the railroad, a near-tragic event turned fortuitous for the young man. After Edison saved a three-year-old from being run over by an errant train, the child’s grateful father rewarded him by teaching him to operate a telegraph. By age 15, he had learned enough to be employed as a telegraph operator. -
communism
political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. -
Social Democrarcy
he Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution. Overview. The Industrial Revolution increased the material wealth of the Western world. It also ended the dominance of agriculture and initiated significant social change. The everyday work environment also changed drastically, and the West became an urban civilization. -
Robert owen
Robert Owen was important because during his lifetime he improved the health, education, well-being and rights of the working class. In the early 1800s, he improved the life of the people who live in his home town, New Lanark and made it a model community. -
Social Darwinsim
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform -
Airplane
The invention of the airplane added to the theme that was so much a part of the Industrial Revolution. As the steam engine had accelerated production and trade, the airplane would eventually help globalize the world. Orville and Wilbur Wright, at the dunes of Kitty Hawk, are credited with the world's first sustainable flight. Their simple biplane spurred a nation's curiosity, which eventually led man to conquer the skies. -
socialism
The new found power of coal and iron made for many new innovations in machinery. Not all of the Industrial Revolution’s changes were physical. A new ideology arose from the sweat of the working class: socialism. -
Social gospel
Social Gospel Movement was key in influencing the improvement of the working conditions of the working classes. In the short term, it would immediately cut all excesses committed against the overall health and well being of the working class. In the long term it promoted what would become the legal framework for labor law.
