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James Watt
He was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. He worked to improve on Thomas Newcomen's steam engine. He called it the Watt steam engine. This helped modernize the new world and brought great changes. -
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. He is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply. And this thinking or ideas like this is considered as Malthusianism. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. His New Lanark mills in Lanark shire, Scotland, with their social and industrial welfare programs, became a place of pilgrimage for political leaders, social reformers, and royalty. He also sponsored or encouraged many experimental “utopian” communities, including one in New Harmony, Indiana, U.S. -
Cotton gin
A cotton gin – meaning "cotton engine" – is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. It helps produce more clothes which help in the boom of the industrial revolution. It was invented by Eli Whitney. -
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer FRS was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield as a major industrial center. -
Dynamo
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter. It set us up to build a very powerful generator. -
Alfred Nobel
I know what your thinking but sadly I don't think he did come up with alfredo sauce :(. But Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. -
Communism
Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state. -
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war. It was most prominent in the early-20th-century United States and Canada. -
Mutual-Aid Societies
A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment. -
Socialisms
Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterized by all, or mainly, social ownership, social control, socialization, or regulation of the means of production. It includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems. -
Airplane
In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. It helped bring goods to a far away place. This eventually would help the boom in a big way. -
Automobile
A significant invention of the late period of the Industrial Revolution was the automobile, which was invented first for a mass audience by Henry Ford in 1908. The Second Industrial Revolution focused instead on steel production, the automobile and advances in electricity. Now everyone has a car now a days. -
Assembly line
An assembly line is a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence. Assembly lines are the most commonly used method in the mass production of products. They reduce labor costs because unskilled workers are trained to perform specific tasks.