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James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1785. -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in 1764. It is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin so that cotton was easier to presses and less slave were needed. What ended up happening was that the plantation owners took advantage of the extra slaves and which boosted the slave trade. -
Henry Bessemer
He was an inventor and engineer who developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856, which later led to the invention of the Bessemer converter. -
Karl Marx
German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. -
Dynamo
Michael Faraday invented the first Dynamo in 1831. it is a device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. -
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is a family of consequential ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. Though the first systematic account of utilitarianism was developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the core insight motivating the theory occurred much earlier. That insight is that morally appropriate behavior will not harm others, but instead increase happiness or 'utility. -
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prize. -
Thomas Edison
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, the electric light bulb, and motion pictures. -
Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management as well as the political theories and movements associated with them. Social ownership can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity. -
Communism Theory
Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state -
Social Democracy
Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented economy. -
Automobile
Karl Benz invented the first automobile in 1885 called the Motorwagen. -
Mutual-Aid Societies
A benefit society, fraternal benefit society or fraternal benefit order is a society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment. -
Airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright created the first airplane on December 17, 1903
