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Jethro Tull
Invented the seed drill -
John Kay
Kay patented his "New Engine of Machine for Opening and Dressing Wool". This machine included the Flying Shuttle. -
James Hargreaves
Hargreaves built what became known as the Spinning-Jenny. -
Capitalism
Adam Smith published Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. -
James Watt
Patented a steam locomotive -
Edmund Cartwright
Invented the power loom -
Abolition of Slavery
William Wiberforce delivers first major abolition speech before the House of Commons. -
Telegraph
The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe -
Cotton Gin
It was invented by Eli Whitney -
Socialism
Robert Owen purchases a cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland. He begins to reshape working and living conditions for his employees. -
Mary Dixon Kies
Received the first U.S. patent issued to a woman. The industrial revolution of the 19th century and the emergence of machinery to the work force sparked the women’s movement in Europe. Therefore the excuse of the physical difference between men and women was no longer valid due to the replacement of the laborer’s (male) strong arms with machines. Women entered the work force. -
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the reaper. -
Reform Bill of 1832
One of the most obvious successes of the 1832 act was that it removed from the political set-up the oddities that were rotten boroughs. -
Steel Seed Plow
John Deere created the first seed plow. -
Sewing Machine
Elias Howe -
Communism
Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848 -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell -
Phonograph
Thomas Edison -
Airplane
Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) -
Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) popularized the use of the term totalitarianism (notably in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism) in order to illustrate the commonalities between Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
