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Abraham Darby's Experiment
Abraham Darby was a man who experimented by using coal in replace of the charcoal to help improve the cost and quality of iron smelting. The enduring impact of this impact is that now we have a more cheaper and better quality way of producing iron and it helps us in our modern day lives with safer and more sturdy structures. -
The Land Enclosure Movement
The land Enclosure agreement let many areas of land to be closed so they could be used by lower class people to farm, harvest food and to benefit from the land. The enduring impact of these events allowed the quality of farms to become better and allowed farmers to easily produce their crops and animals and to make better profits. -
Key Improvements by James Watt
James Watt was a man who has made very helpful improvements on the steam engine that was made by Thomas Newcomen. His improvements lead the engine to become a lot better and more reliable. The enduring impact of this event is that James Watt has helped many engineers become more inspired to improve on many things we use today to make them better, similar to his improvements on the steam engine. Many people were, and still are, inspired to keep working to make things safer and better. -
The Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was one of the first looks into machines and how they can help and hurt us. The spinning jenny helped weave many items faster than any human could. It helped people produce more items in a faster amount of time, meaning more money for them. It also hurt them because it took place of peoples jobs. Luckily, the Spinning Jenny helped people see into the future and think of all the other possibilities for other machines that could improve the time to come. -
The Railroads
When Richard Reynolds made the first wooden railroads to transport coal, he probably had no clue he was paving the future for transportation. They began using iron rails and people would get on the train and get to where they wanted. Although it was only went about 20 miles per hour, the creation of these rails has helped people all around the world think of how they could get places quicker, and helped in the production of cars. -
The Cotton Gin
Similar to the spinning jenny, the cotton gin helped the process of removing seeds from cotton go a lot faster. unfortunately, this caused peoples jobs to be taken, but without it our lives would probably be much different. These inventions had other people thinking what they could do to help the future. -
The Factory Acts Passed in England
The factory acts made it different for children under the age of 8 to work and it made the working hours for children and women shorter. It also made it necessary for them to have an education in order to work. The enduring impacts of these events is that it changed the way people thought about children in a working environment and it paved the way for the idea of sending children to school for education. -
The Writings of Karl Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked together to write a piece called The Communist Manifesto. This piece of writing presented the ideas of living in a communist society. The enduring impact of this event is that it allowed people to see each other equally and it allowed overall wealth to go up.
