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James Watt
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776. This was fundamental to the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. He is important because of the changes he made and started. -
George Stephenson
He was an English engineer and inventor of the railroad locomotive. He also work with steam engines which made him chief mechanic. -
Cotton Gin
is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Helped make cotton profitable. -
Socialism
It emerged as a response to the expanding capitalist system. It presented an alternative, aimed at improving a lot of the working class and creating a more egalitarian society. -
Social Darwinism
is a loose set of ideologies that emerged in the late 1800s in which Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was used to justify certain political, social, or economic views. -
Charles Darwin
He was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended from common ancestors is now widely accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science. He is most famous for his theory of natural selection. -
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He was most known for his fortune that established the Nobel prize. He has made many contributions to science that holds 355 patents in his lifetime. He also invented dynamite. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. His most famous inventions are the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. -
communism
the 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. -
Germ Theory
germ theory, in medicine, is the theory that certain diseases are caused by the invasion of the body by microorganisms, organisms too small to be seen except through a microscope. Was discovered by Louis Pasteur. -
Social Gospel
religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. -
Automobile
The most important thing that it did was give people a way to get to jobs, places to live, and service a lot easier. It also contributed to the rise of leisure activities. -
assembly line
Ransom Olds created and patented the assembly line in 1901. Switching to this process allowed his car manufacturing company to increase output by 500 percent in one year. The assembly line sped up the manufacturing process dramatically. It allowed for more hours for people to be able to work. -
Airplane
Created by the Wright brothers. It has connected nations that would have never been connected otherwise and shown us a new, unseen, and spectacular perspective of our earth. This invention is important due to its potential. Its birth was in the Industrial Revolution. -
social Democracy
a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means.