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The seed drill allowed farmers sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths, increasing the percentage of seeds that took root, and boosted crop yields.
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The Flying Shuttle was a boat-shaped piece of wood that sped back and forth on wheels that could weave yarn much faster.
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Watt invented a steam engine that worked faster, and more efficiently, while burning less fuel.
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Karl Marx argued that human societies are divided into warring classes of "haves" and "have nots" in which the wealthy controlled the means of production, and the poor performed back-breaking labor. Marx predicted the gap between classes would become so great, the workers would overthrow the owners, and then create a system of economic equality with cooperative living.
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The US was primarily agricultural until the Civil War ended, but during the last third of the 1800s, the country experienced a technilogical boom, because of natural resources, a burst of inventions, and a swelling urban population.
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With the help of railroads linking major cities, and coal and iron ore deposits, machine shops, coal mines, iron foundries, spinneries, rolling mills, and many other industrial facilities sprang up in Germany, generating tremendous economic strength.
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The combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 outlawed unions and strikes. Workers ignored threat of jail or job loss, and joined unions, and held strikes until Parliment finally repealed the Combination Acts in 1824.
