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James Watt
James watt was and inventor, engineer, and chemist. He improved the steam engine with his ideas it improved it majorly around the world -
Spinning Jenny
Was a weaver living in the village of Stanhill in Lancashire. It is claimed that one day his daughter Jenny, accidentally knocked over over the family spinning wheel. The spindle continued to revolve and it gave Hargreaves the idea that a whole line of spindles could be worked off one wheel. -
Robert Owen
Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities. -
Corporations
The first American corporations were developed in the 1790s, almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. -
Cotton Gin
A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Communism
Marxism, first developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-1800s, has been the foremost ideology of the communist movement. -
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a philosopher, author, social theorist, and an economist. He is famous for his theories about capitalism and communism. -
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel is best known for his invention of dynamite and an explosive device called a blasting cap, which inaugurated the modern use of high explosives. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor who is considered one of America's leading businessmen and innovators. he credited with inventions such as the first practical incandescent light bulb and the phonograph. He held over 1,000 patents for his inventions. -
Socialism
The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed scientific socialism. -
Social democracy
Social democracy is an ideology that has similar values to socialism, but within a capitalist framework. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is any of various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Social Gospel
Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920 -
Airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight. -
Assembly Line
Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.
