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Jethro Tull
One of the first scientific inventors. invented see drill. -
John Kay
Made a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels. -
james Watt
Made a steam engine work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel. -
Samuel Crompton
Combined two inventions to make the spinning mule. -
Malthus
Argued that population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply. -
William Cockerill
A Lancashire carpenter named William Cockerill illigally made his way to Belgium. -
Standard Oill-carnagie steel
They sprang up every where. -
Britain
Britian blockaded the United States. -
Francis caot Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell of boston and four other investors revolutionized the American textile industry. -
Ricardo
A wealthy stockbroker , took malthus's theory one step further in his book. -
Loaell Massachusetts
had a booming manufacturing center and a model for other such towns. -
New Harmony
One lasted three years, and it's a coopertive community. -
locomotive
Trials were held to choose the best locomotive for use on the new line. -
railway
The lliverpool- manchester railway opened officially. -
Alexis de Tocqueville
A french writer Alexis de Tocqueville had contrusted the brutal conditions in American prisons to the extende liberty of American socieety. -
Factory Act of 1833
made it illegal to hire children under nine years old. -
Britain abolishes slavery
After many tries they finally abolished slavery. -
samuel B. Morse
First to send electrical signal over telegraph. -
Ten hours Act of 1847
Limited workday to ten hours. -
Manifetto
the communist manifetto was published and produced in short term results. -
Beginning of the movement for women's rights
Women led reform movements for their rights and other pressing social issues. -
Public school System
many states were starting public school systems. -
United States
The enslavement of African people finally ended after the cival war, -
National Child labor committee
A group of progressive farmers organized the National child labor committee to end cjild labor. -
Supreme Court
The British Supreme Court objested toa federal child labor law, ruling that it interfered with states' rights to regulatelabor.