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Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright was born on December 23, 1732. He was an English inventor and leading entrepreneur in the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the Water Frame and passed away on August 3, 1792. -
James Watt
James Watt was born on January 19, 1736. He was a Scottish instrument maker and inventor. He invented the steam engine. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and passed away on August 25, 1819. -
Utilitarianism
Developed in response to injustices done to workers in the Industrial Revolution, developed as a theory of ethics on which to base law. The first step is to determine who is affected by any given action. It was developed in 1760. -
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was born on February 13, 1766. He was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. He passed away on December 23, 1834. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was born on June 9, 1781. He was an English engineer and principle inventor of the railroad locomotive. He was the son of a mechanic who operated a steam engine. He passed away on August 12, 1848. -
Corporations
The first American corporations were developed in the 1790's. Almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. Corporations existed in Europe in the early 19th century—particularly in Great Britain and the Netherlands. The exact date is unknown. -
Cotton Gin
A significant invention of the Industrial Revolution was the cotton gin. It was invented by Eli Whitney. The cotton gin was a machine that could quickly separate cotton fibers from seeds in order to create cotton items such as clothing and linens. It was invented on March 14, 1794. -
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818. He was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. He passed away on March 14, 1883. -
Dynamo
The Dynamo's impact on the Industrial Revolution was the belief that human kind could be powered by machines. An interesting fact is that the Dynamo inspired the Industrial Revolutions leaders to create factories with machinery for man power. The word "dynamo" was coined in 1831 by Michael Faraday, who utilized his invention toward making many discoveries in electricity and magnetism. -
Socialism
After the Industrial Revolution started, the majority of workers lost this independence. They started working in factories at set times and in set ways. They had no control over their work lives. In this way, socialism came about because of the changes caused by the Industrial Revolution. It all started in 1848. -
Communism
As the Industrial Revolution advanced, socialist critics blamed capitalism for the misery of the proletariat a new class of urban factory workers who labored under often hazardous conditions. However, communism is most widely identified with Karl Marx, who outlined the system with Fried-rich Engels in The Communist Manifesto 1848. Marx's embrace of communism was motivated in part by the inequities caused by the Industrial Revolution. -
Social Gospel
Social Gospel was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. This religious movement arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
Social democracy
Social democracy originated as an ideology within the socialist and labor movement, whose goal at different times has been a social revolution to move away from capitalism to a post-capitalist economy such as socialism, a peaceful revolution as in evolutionary socialism, or the establishment and support of a welfare. By 1868–1869, Marxism had become the official theoretical basis of the first social democratic party established in Europe, the Social Democratic Workers Party of Germany. -
Airplane
During the latter part of the Industrial Revolution, it was also used to power the first airplane. The Wright brothers built and flew the first airplane in 1903. It's birth was in the Industrial Revolution but its success was in the 20th century. -
Assembly Line
Henry Ford invented the Assembly line. Assembly line is industrial arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers for continuous flow of work pieces in mass-production operations. This operation began in 1913.
