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History chapter 18

Terms in this set (18)

Invented the seed drill
Jethro Tull
Invented a new system of crop rotation that involved planting clover and turnips in the field to replenish needed minerals, rather than leaving the field barren for a year
Charles Townsend
Used selective breeding to produce larger and healthier farm animals
Robert Bakewell
invented the spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
invented the spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
Invented the spinning frame, also known as the father of the industrial revolution
Richard Arkwright
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Invented a process by which iron ore was puddled in a furnace to rid it of impurities
Henry Cort
Designed the first practical and efficient steam engine
James Watt
Put a steam engine in a ship
Robert Fulton
Built a steam powered locomotive
Richard Trevithick
His locomotive pulled a train of ten cars
George Stephenson
made the first successful airplane flight
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Established a welfare state in New Harmony, Indiana that failed after only a short time
Robert Owen
Close friend of Karl Marx that helped him draw up the communist manifesto
Friedrich Engels
Marx's term for the "workers"
Proletariat
Marx's term for the middle class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists or factory owners that the workers struggled against
Bourgeoisie
British socialists who sought to achieve a socialistic society without revolution
Fabians
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