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Jethro Tull Invents the Seed Drill
Jethro Tull, an English inventor, creates the Seed Drill, a device that accurately places and buries seeds in the ground and was originally towed by horse or oxen. The old method was to manually dig holes and then throw seeds over the field, a method that led to a much lower growth percentage than the seed drill. The device revolutionized the agricultural industry because it made hand planting obsolete and greatly increased the total harvest by farmers. -
John Kay Invents Flying Shuttle
John Kay, an English inventor, creates the Flying Shuttle, which allows weavers to greatly increase the production and precision of their work. This invention was a major factor in boosting Britain's textile industry, which became one of their major industries. A side effect of that was the creation of high risk factories that used child labor in Britain. -
James Watt Invents the Steam Engine
James Watt, a Scottish inventor, makes the Boulton Watt steam engine. Together with Michael Boulton, an Entrepreneur who promoted the engine, they present it to the world. The engine signified the beginning of a new age of transportation, from allowing a transcontinental railway in the US, to steamboats for easy shipping of goods. -
Marx and Engels Publish The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, two well off German Philosophers, publish The Communist Manifesto, a book advertizing a new form of government with an extremely strong government and an elimination of a class system where all all people are completely equal in every way. This form was very popular and influenced the systems of many countries in the 20th century, including Russia and China. -
American Civil War Ends
The American Civil war, a conflict concerning an attempted secession of southern states from the United States, which resulted in one of the bloodiest wars in American History. After the war ended, all the resources used to fuel the war were diverted to industrialization, which put the United States as a major player in the race for industrialization. One of the factors that led to the US’s boom in industrialization was the steam train, which allowed for fast transportation and shipping of goods -
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Germany Becomes a Dominant Power in Industrialization
Although not a unified country yet, Germany pulled ahead in industrialization. One of the major factors in this was the practice of sending one’s children to England, the leading industrialized power before Germany, to be trained in industrialization and bring their skills back to Germany. -
British Workers Gain the Right to Strike
Following the decree in 1871 that allowed unions to form, in 1875 England gave the right to strike to British unions and the right to abandon work posts to do so in the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act.
