Industrial Revolution

  • Richard Arkwright

    Richard Arkwright

    Leading inventor and entrepreneur during the industrial revolution, inventing the yarn and thread for the textile mill.
  • James watt

    James watt

    James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved upon the steam engine.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus

    An English cleric and scholar, who had influential pulls in the political economy. Creating the theory of population.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    Machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds.
  • Communism

    Communism

    Political theory derived from Karl Marx, 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.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Geologist And Biologist. Best known for the scientific method and the evolution of everything.
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo

    Converting mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    American inventor and businessman, developing in fields such as electric power, mass communications, sound recording, and motion pictures.
  • Socialism

    Socialism

    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.
  • Germ theory

    Germ theory

    Microorganisms known as germs can lead to disease.
  • Darwinism

    Darwinism

    the theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin.
  • Automobile

    Automobile

    Karl Benz created the first automobile creating a new era of transportation.
  • Social gospel

    Social gospel

    Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform.
  • Airplane

    Airplane

    The Wright brothers created a new form of transportation that could go over sea and land in the near future.
  • Assembly line

    Assembly line

    Manufacturing process in which parts are added one by one by specific people trained in that one field. Created by Henry Ford.
  • Social democracy

    Social democracy

    a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means.