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Industrial Revolution Timeline (14839)

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  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle
    John Kay
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves
  • James Watt

    James Watt
    Made the steam engine more efficient
  • Water Frame

    Water Frame
    Richard Arkwright
  • Matthew Boulton

    Matthew Boulton
    Business partners with James Watt and helped him sell his newly designed steam engine
  • Capitalism

    Capitalism
    Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule
    Samuel Crompton
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom
    Edmund Cartwright
  • Moses Brown

    Moses Brown
    Opened the first factory in the United States
  • Utilitarianism

    Utilitarianism
    Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney
  • John McAdam

    John McAdam
    Equipped roadbeds with a layer of large stones for drainage. This let wagons travel in bad weather.
  • Socialism

    Socialism
    Charles Fourier, Saint-Simon
  • Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali
    Single handedly Industrailized Egypt
  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton
    Made the first steam boat and had its first successful run in this year
  • Abolition of Slavery

    Abolition of Slavery
    Abolished by Britain and its empire first.
  • Ten Hours Act of 1847

    Ten Hours Act of 1847
    This bill made it so all women and children working in factoires could only work ten hours in a day
  • Affect of Women

    Affect of Women
    Womens movement started in 1848 for better working conditions and more rights
  • Point about the US

    Point about the US
    Public school became popular in the US and was promoted nationally. By 1850 most states offered public school for children.
  • Communism

    Communism
    Karl Marx