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James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was the needed changes for Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. -
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is a system of theories that promotes actions that utilize the most happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. -
Spinning Jenny
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. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Known as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, making a much greater productivity than humans separating cottom.. -
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. -
Dynamo
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industries. It allowed civilization to thrive. -
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. And because of him we now have the Nobel peace prize. -
Tenements
A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. It can be flats divided horizontally to establish a building type, including desirable properties in affluent areas. The term Tenements often refers to a run-down apartment building or slum building. -
Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems made up of social ownership, production and workers self-management along with the political theories and movements associated with them. Social ownership can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity. -
Automobile
The Automobile traveled with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine, or electric motor and can carry a small number of people. -
Social Democracy
Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice in a liberal democratic capitalist-oriented economy. -
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. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is theories of society that came in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
