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Utilitarianism
Increase in production that began in England during the 18th century. ... The Industrial Revolution began with an agri- cultural revolution. In the early 1700s, large landowners in Britain bought much of the land that had been owned by poorer farmers. -
Richard Arkwright
Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.He invented a water frame/spinning frame. -
James Watt
James watt is a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemis. He helped improve the steam engine. They were used to pump water out of coal mines. -
Germ Theory
The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can lead to disease. These small organisms, too small to see without magnification, invade humans, other animals, and other living hosts -
Spinning Jenny
The 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 in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one founder of Utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, is best known for efforts to improve working conditions for his factory workers.He was a pioneer in what today would be called a liberal education, as well as in modern education techniques. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. -
Mutual-aid Societies
In the mid-18th century, as the Industrial Revolution hastened the growth of British towns, the friendly society system became well established. Sometimes they were called fraternal societies, mutual aid societies, or benefit clubs -
Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. It helped 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. -
Charles Darwin
was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist. -
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. In the last third of the 19th century, social democratic parties arose in Europe, drawing mainly from Marxism. -
Social Gospel
was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
Airplane
The gasoline engine was not limited just to the automobile. During the latter part of the Industrial Revolution, it was also used to power the first airplane. The Wright brothers built and flew the first airplane in 1903. With this first flight, they ushered in the age of flight. -
Tenements
During the Industrial Revolution, many tenements were built to house working-class families, many of whom were moving to cities to work manufacturing jobs. Other buildings, such as middle-class houses or warehouses, were repurposed as tenements.
