Industrial Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Domestic System | Also known as "Putting out" "Necessity is the mother of invention" |
| Samuel Slater | Built first factory in America in 1793 |
| John Kay | Invented: Flying shuttle |
| James Hargreaves | Invented: Spinning Jenny |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented: Water frame |
| Samuel Crompton | Invented: Spinning mule |
| Edmund Cartwright | Invented: Power loom |
| Eli Whitney | Invented: Cotton gin |
| Issac Singer | Invented: Sewing machines |
| T. Savory | Discovered: Steam power |
| T. Newcomen | Invented: Steam engine |
| James Watt | Imrpoved: Steam engne |
| Robert Fulton | Invented: Steam boat- Clermont |
| George Stephenson | Invented: Steam locomotive- Rocket |
| Michael Faraday | Invented: Dynamo |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | Invented: Telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented: Telephone |
| Thomas Edison | Invented: Electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Invented: Wirless telegraph |
| Edwin Drake | Invented: 1st oil derrick- Began petroleum industry |
| Gottlieb Daimler | Invented: Internal combustion engine |
| Henry Ford | Invented: Assembly line- Mass production |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | Invented: Airplane |
| Louis J.M Daguerre | Invented: Photographic process |
| Improvements made by the industrial revolution | Better living Greater social mobility Free public education |
| Harm of the industrial revolution | Hardships for workers: Lower wages, longer hours, and poor working conditions Urban blight |
| Adam Smith | Wrote: Wealth of Nations - Laissez faire and captalism |
| Thomas Malthus | Wrote: Essay on Population - Population would outgrow production of food, clothes, and shelter |
| D. Ricardo | Wrote: Principle of Poltics, Economcs, and Tax -"Iron law of wages"- Wages affected by labor supply |
| Agricultral Revolution Effects | Production increased/cost decreased Number of farms decreased Farming became a big business |
| Jethro Tull | Invented: Seed drill |
| Charles Newbold | Invented: Cast iron plow |
| Cyprus McCormick | Invented: Reaper |
| John Deere | Invented: Self-cleaning plow |
| Charles Townshend | Invented: Crop rotation |
| Robert Bakewell | Pioneer in pratice of systematic inbreeding |
| Justus von Liebig | Invented: Artificial fertilizers |
| George Washington Carver | Developed: Industrial use for peanut |
| Socialism | Vesting of production in hands of society- not in those of private individuals |
| Thomas Moore | Wrote: Utopia |
| Robert Owen | Founded New Lanark and New Harmony, IN utopias |
| Claude Saint-Simon | Wealthy should share their wealth with the poor |
| Charles Fourier | Phalansteries- Communes with individuals working for common good= co-ops |
| Louis Blanc | National workshops- government provides work |
| Karl Marx | Wrote: Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital Believed in scientific socialism and communism Believed economic conditions determined the course of history |
| Frederick Engles | Helped Marx write Communist Manifesto |
| Claude Monet | Painted: Impressions- Sunrise |
| Edgar Degas | Painted: The Rehearsal |
| Auguste Renoir | Painted: Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Painted: Starry Night |
| Charles Debussy | "Founder" of modern music Composed: Afternoon of a Faun and La Mer |
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