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James Watt
He created the Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776. He worked at University of Glasgow. He had poor health so he was unable to attend school regularly. -
Spinning jenney
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Cotton gin
The Cotton Gin was the name given to the machine that separated the fibers of cotton from the seeds. Importance of the Eli Whitney Cotton Gin. The Importance of the Eli Whitney Cotton Gin was that it revolutionized the cotton industry in the South by automating the seed separation process. -
Germ theory
The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can lead to disease. These small organisms, too small to see without magnification, invade humans, other animals, and other living hosts. -
Automobile
automobiles date back to the 17th century. No one can determine the actual creator of the automobile, but there are inventors of many different types of cars. It started in 1769 when Nicolas-Joseph built the first self-propelled road vehicle. This was a Steam car. It was used as a military tractor for the French army. In 1832 -
communism
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries created a seemingly permanent underclass of workers, many of whom lived in poverty under terrible working conditions and with little political representation. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a man ahead of his time. During his lifetime, he endeavoured to improve the health, education, well-being and rights of the working class. This driving ambition to create a better society for all took him around the world, from a small mill village in Lanarkshire in Scotland to New Harmony, Indiana in America with varied success. -
Alfred Nobel
Nobel left Russia at the age of 18. After spending a year in Paris studying chemistry, he moved to the United States. After five years, he returned to Russia and began working in his father's factory making military equipment for the Crimean War. -
charles darwin
Darwin formulated his bold theory in private in 1837, after returning from a voyage around the world aboard Beagle, but it was not until two decades later that he finally gave it full public expression in On the Origin of Species , a book that has deeply influenced modern Western society and thought. -
Social Darwinism
Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
socialism
It presented an alternative, aimed at improving the lot of the working class and creating a more egalitarian society. In its emphasis on public ownership of the means of production, socialism contrasted sharply with capitalism, which is based around a free market system and private ownership. -
thomas edison
He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. -
Airplane
The invention of the airplane added to the theme of "faster is better" that was so much a part of the Industrial Revolution. As the steam engine had accelerated production and trade, the airplane would eventually help globalize the world. Orville and Wilbur Wright, at the dunes of Kitty Hawk, are credited with the world's first sustainable flight. -
Social democracy
Social democracy was originally known as revisionism because it represented a change in basic Marxist doctrine, primarily in the former’s repudiation of the use of revolution to establish a socialist society. -
Social gospel
The Social Gospel was a movement in Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war.
