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Abraham Darby
used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron -
Thomas Newcomen
Developed a steam engine powered by coal -
Watt
improves the steam engine -
Bridge-water Canal
opened and cut the price of coal in Manchester in half -
Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny was invented, spun many threads at the same time -
Richard Arkwright
patented the water frame, which was a spinning machine that could not be powered by water -
Eli Whitney
invented the cotton gin, separated the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate -
Laissez-Faire LINK
in the early 1800s, middle-class business leaders embraced the "hands-off" approach
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Jeremy Bentham
advocated utilitarianism -
Owen
began social reforms at New Lanark -
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Steam Powered Locomotives
pioneers developed steam-powered locomotives to pull carriages along iron rails -
Fulton
develops the first successful steamboat, the Clermont -
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Industrial Riots
groups of textile workers resisted the labor-saving machines that were costing them their jobs -
First Major Rail Line
opened; from Liverpool to Manchester -
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Inspectors
British lawmakers formed teams of inspectors to ensure that factories and mines obeyed the laws in the 1830s and 1840s -
Marx and Engels
publish The Communist Manifesto -
Railroad Expansion
railroad travel became faster and railroad building boomed by 1870; rail lines crisscrossed Britain, Europe, and North America
