industrial revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| enclosure movement | practice of fencing or enclosing common lands into individual holding |
| industrial revolution | term for changes during the 1700's , when power drive machines began to do much of the work that people had done before |
| factors of production | basic resources for industrialization, such as neccessary land, capital and labor |
| richard arkwright | invented a way to drive the spinning "jenny" (spinning wheel that can spin eight times the thread a person could spin) by water |
| factory system | production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large # of workers |
| eli whitney | invented the cotton gin, a machine that could clean more cotton in a day than hand laborers |
| james wyatt | aq |
| henry bessemer | working independently invented whats known as the Bessemer Process a cheaper and more efficient method of making steal |
| robert fulton | the first man to build a profitable steamboat THE CLERMONT |
| samuel morse | put the principals of governing magnetic effect of electricity to practical use |
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