Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • James Watt

    James Watt
    He was a maker of mathematical instruments but soon later he became interested in steam engines.The first steam engine was patented in 1698 by the time of watts birth. but he said he would improve the design and he met someone and he opened up his own mining business. he was called as royalty because he designed and opened up mining's with canals.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    A spinning Jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England.
  • cotton Gin

    cotton Gin
    U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber For his work, he is credited as a pioneer of American manufacturing.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus
    Thomas Robert Malthus was born near Guildford, Surrey. His father was a prosperous but unconventional and educated his son at home. Malthus went on to Cambridge University, earning a master's degree in 1791.he became a teacher in history and political economy.He was best known for his hugely influential theories on population growth.
  • Socialism

    Socialism
    socialism has its origins in the 1789 French Revolution and the changes which it brought, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas. ... By 1968, the prolonged Vietnam War (1959–1975) gave rise to the New Left, socialists who tended to be critical of the Soviet Union and social democracy.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin was an English Natural scientist who laid down a framework for the theory of evolution – showing how Man evolved from lower life forms.He made his theory on natural selection and evolution.born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. was born in a wealthy family because his family was a influential family.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    He was born in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer.Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. He was best known for theoretical base for modern international communism.
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo
    Built by Hippolyte Pixii, a French instrument maker. It used a permanent magnet which was rotated by a crank. The spinning magnet was positioned so that its north and south poles passed by a piece of iron wrapped with insulated wire.
  • Alfred Nobel

    Alfred Nobel
    He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was an engineer and inventor. In 1850, Nobel's father sent him abroad to study chemical engineering. During a two-year period Nobel visited Sweden, Germany, France and the United States. He returned to Sweden in 1863 with his father after the family firm went bankrupt. So he devoted himself to study explosives. He was best known for as a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, who established the Nobel Prize.
  • Communism

    Communism
    Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx during the 19th century. ... This was one major cause of tensions during the Cold War as the United States and its military allies equated the global spread of communism with Soviet expansionism by proxy.
  • Germ Theory

    Germ Theory
    People have created theories to explain human disease for millennia:Greek physician Hippocrates, born in 460 BCE, thought that ‘bad air’ from swampy areas was to blame. In the 19th century, improvements in microscope technology enabled a generation of microbiologists to investigate further the world of previously unseen disease-causing organisms. The Germ Theory was thought of people of how this sickness got here and how they can fix it.
  • Social Democracy

    Social Democracy
    Social democracy originated as an ideology within the socialist and labour movement, whose goal at different times has been a social revolution to move away from capitalism to a post-capitalist economy such as socialism, a peaceful revolution as in evolutionary socialism, or the establishment and support of a welfare .
  • social darwinism

    social darwinism
    theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe, claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
  • social gospel

    social gospel
    It was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.
  • Assembly line

    Assembly line
    is a manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order.The Ford Motor Company adopted the assembly line between 1908 and 1915, and it helped the company become a significant force in the United States economy.