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James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Re -
Socalism
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. -
Cotton Gin
a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Utilitarianism
developed as a theory of ethics on which to base law. The first step is to determine who is affected by any given action. -
Social darwinism
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin 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 over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science -
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century -
Dynamo
a machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures -
Communism
advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
Social democracy
a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means. -
Interchangeable parts
identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work -
Airplane
Allowed travel through the air but didn't come in handy until the 20th century when it really took off -
Automobile
It enabled people to go wherever they wanted whenever they wanted. The automobile modernize the transportation industry entirely.
