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James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor. He invented the steam engine witch was important because it helped transport goods across land and water. -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was a machine used for spinning wool or cotton. The inventor was James Hargreaves. It improved the efficiency and production of textiles. -
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer. He was also a Philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He was important because he was the first person to advocate for a universal “eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest” approach to work-life balance. -
cotton gin
A cotton gin meaning "cotton engine" is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds. therefore it is much greater productivity than doing it by hand. it was important because they didn't need as many slaves witch slowly stopped slavery. -
Interchangeable Parts
Interchangeable parts are parts that are identical for practical purposes. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type. One such part can freely replace another, without any custom fitting, such as filing. They are important because it made fixing stuff easier. -
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science. He was important because he completed the Copernican Revolution by drawing out for biology the notion of nature as a system of matter in motion governed by natural laws. -
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Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four volume Das Kapital. He was important because of his theories that led to the development of Marxism. -
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Tenements
Tenements is a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. Tenements were important because it created housing space for people. the inventor was Sarah Goode. -
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. He was important because he allowed people to see a night. -
Germ Theory
French chemist Louis Pasteur developed modern germ theory. He proved that food spoiled because of contamination by invisible bacteria, not because of spontaneous generation. Pasteur stipulated that bacteria caused infection and disease. -
Dynamo
Was a machine that converted mechanical energy into electrical energy. Another word for it is a generator. The inventor was Charles F. Brush. It was thought to be the earths magnetic field. -
Automobile
Charles Duryea and J. Frank, who were bicycle mechanics at the time, designed the first successful American gasoline automobile. Designed in Springfield Massachusetts, it would later be sold as the first American-made gas powered car. The automobile gave people more personal freedom and access to jobs and services. -
Airplane
The Wright brothers invented the airplane. The airplane was invented in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina when the brothers were 7 and 11 years old. The airplane is important because it boosted our power of movement, but also enhanced our vision. -
Assembly line
The assembly line definition in US history is a manufacturing process that allows for finished and almost finished parts to be installed in sequence to automate and reduce the time needed to assemble a finished good. It was important because it made goods for the people. -
Corporations
A corporations is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law. They are important because it made more goods for the people.
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