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Seed Drill
Jethro Tull invented the seed drill -
Steam Engine
James Watt improved the Newcomen's Steam Engine design. -
Capitalism
Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus. Date = The Wealth of Nations published. -
Spinning Mule
Invented by Samuel Crompton -
Samuel Slater
Smuggled the design of the spinning machine into the United States -
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham introduced philosophy of utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill led utilitarian movement in the 1800s. -
Roads
In the early 1800's, John McAdam equipped roadbeds with a layer of large stones for drainage, on top he placed a smooth layer of crushed rock. -
Steamboat
Invented by Robert Fulton after ordering a steam engine and attaching it to a boat -
The US
America entered the Industrial Revolution after the passage of the Embargo Act in 1807, and the War of 1812 -
Socialism
Robert Owen who published A New View of Society in 1813 and who organised the first attempt at a socialist community, New Lanark in Scotland -
Francis Cabot Lowell
Revolutionized the American Textile Industry by mechanizing every stage in the manufaturing of clothe -
Karl Marx
Created Marxism/Communism -
William Cooper
Cooper testified before a parliamentary committee about the conditions among child laborers in the textile industry. -
Communism
Karl Marx introduced the world to a radical type of socialism through "The Communist Manifesto", called Marxism/Communism -
Elizabeth Gaskell
Wrote Novels like "Mary Barton" that show sympathy for the working class. -
Reform
Horace Mann of Massachusetts, favored free public education for all children. 1850s, many states began to establish a system of public schools -
Jane Addams
Set up Hull House with a friend. The facility eventually included a nursery, a kitchen, a gym, and a boarding house for working women. -
Abolition of Slavery
Enslavement of African people ended in the United States after the Union won the Civil War in 1865. -
Gas Mask
George Neally invented a smoke-excluding mask in 1877 -
Women's Effect
Women activists around the world joined together to found the International Council for Women in 1888
