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Jethro Tull Invents Seed Drill
Jethro Tull was one of the first scientific farmers. He saw that sprinkling seeds around was wasteful, and came up with a better technique and the invention of the seed drill. It allwowed farmers to sow seeds in smartly thought out rows at specified depths. This caused fro a better crop turnout. -
John Kay Invents the Flying Shuttle
The flying shuttle was useful during the time in britain that was high in demand for for clothing. The flying shutle increadsed the productivity of weavers by speedily drawing yarn back and forth as the weaver pulled a handle on the loom. -
James Watt builds First Steam Engine
A mathmatical instrument maker in Scottland named James Watt thought about the problem of the steam engine taking up too much oil. He found a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently as it burns lesss fuel. -
Marx and Engels Publish The Communist Manifesto
The German journalist, Karl Marx introduced the world to a more radical version of spcialism called Marxism. He and Friedrich Engels, a German whose father owned his own textile company wrote out their ideas in a 23 page panphlet that they called the Communist Manifesto. In this document they argued that human societies have always been divided into warring classes and in their own time, there were the middle class, "haves" and the 'have nots" the workers. they said that the workers will rebel. -
US Civil War ends; Us expiriences Technological Boom
As the Civil war came to an end, the Us was free to industrialize and thus grew rapidly. Causes of the rapid growth and industrialization were new recources such as coal. A larger population started to develop and this helped to power the new machinery and factories in the United States. -
Germany Becomes a Dominant Industrial Power in Europe
Germany was politically divided in the early 1800's. Small amounts of industrialization occured when coal was found in west central germany. In around 1825 the Germans started to import british equiptment and engineers. Germans also sent their children to schools in england to learn about indisutrial management. By the late 1800s germany had become an industrial and military giant. Machine shops, railroads, coal mines and iron foundries, spinneriies and rolling mills were developed. -
British Unions Win the Right to Strike
At first, Britian thought that unions and strikes would lead to power, so they were banned in Britain, but after the unions refused to listen to the government, the British then recalled their law and allowed strikes to occur and unions to go on and continue their development.
