Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • Jame Watt

    Jame Watt
    He was an inventor and instrument maker. Best known for his improvements to the steam engine. Invented photo copier, watt steam engine, watt's linkage, and parallel motion.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves was the inventor of the spinning jenny. It's a multi-spindle spinning frame. A key development in the industrialization of weaving during industrial revolution.
  • Robert Owen

    Robert Owen
    Was a Welsh textile manufacturer and a Philanthropic social reformer. He was a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Improved working conditions for his factory workers. Sought to use utopian socialist ideals to create a society with no private property. Became wealthy as an investor and manger of large textile mill in New Lanark, Scotland.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Machine was made to quickly and easily separate cotton fibers. The cotton was separated from the seeds dramatically reduced amount of time spent. Eli Whitney and Robert S. Munger were the ones that invented this.
  • Utilitarlamism

    Believed the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing amount good over bad. Obtained empirical inquiry into humans nature and the noivation of human behavior. "pain and happiness"
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    He is important in the development of scientific and humanist ideas. Discovered how humanity had evolved. Best known for the voyage of the Beagle. One big idea was natural selection. Wasn't an inventor but discovered a lot being a scientist and naturalist.
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo
    The inventor of the dynamo was Michael Faraday. The device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. First electrical generators capable of delivering power.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    One of the most famous inventor of all time. He exerted a tremendous influence on Modern life. Some inventions were light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera. Helped improve the telegraph and telephone. Always created worlds first industrial research laboratory.
  • Socialism

    Socialism
    When workers started losing their independence is when it all really started. They were in no control of their work or hours. It comes about to help change that and make things right. Based upon economic and political theories that advocate for collectivism.
  • soical democracy

    soical 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.
  • social gospel

    social gospel
    The Social Gospel Movement 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.
  • communism

    communism
    Political theory or system in which all property and wealth. It is owned in classless society by all members of society. Creation of labor forces and factory manufacturing paved ways for ideas.
  • Automobile

    Automobile
    Was first a petrol/ gasoline powered internal combustion engines. Karl Benz built his first in 1885. It was a one cylinder two stroke unit. Ran for the first time on New Years Eve.
  • Alfred Nobel

    Alfred Nobel
    Invented dynamite, blasting cap and gelignite. Best know for the blasting cap, which inaugurated the modern use of high explosive. He was founded of the Nobel Prize.
  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Wright brothers made four flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The brothers were the first to invent first successful plane. Made for easier transport of goods and safe convenient travel.