Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • James Watt

    James Watt
    He improved the steam engine. Which was vital to the changes brought with the revolution. Was a Scottish inventor
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson
    Was a civil and mechanic engineer. Example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements
  • 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
  • cottin gin

    cottin gin
    used to remove seeds for cotton
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Interchangeable Parts
    This is the production of the same parts over and over to have a supply of extra parts. this is so if one thing breaks you dont have to throw the hole thing away just gotta replace one thing. Example, a musket. if you break the stock just get a new one.
  • utilitarianism

    utilitarianism
    the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    He was an English biologist and naturalist. Know for contributions to the science of evolution. All species have common ancestors.
  • Henry Bessemer

    Henry Bessemer
    He was an English inventor. Process of making steel is vital to the 19th century for over a hundred years. Vital role in making a small town.
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo
    used to create electricity by using a gasoline engine
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    He was an inventor. Created the electric light bulb. And many other inventions with sound, motion pictures.
  • communism

    communism
    a 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.
  • Automobile

    Automobile
    It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently. Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim
  • social darwinism

    social darwinism
    the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
  • social democrocy

    social democrocy
    a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means.
  • airplane

    airplane
    Used for transportation would become very popular in the 20th century
  • Assembly Line

    Assembly Line
    Henry ford invented it. Series of people that do one task then send it down to some one else. Faster than normally building whole thing by yourself.