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Land Enclosure Movement
By the 1700's, the British Parliament ease enclosures through legislation because they wanted to produce bigger fields that could be gardened more efficiently. The enduring impact is this lead to the migration of people to the city in seek of employment. -
Abraham Darby's Experimentation
Abraham Darby tested by applying coal rather than charcoal to smelt the iron. The continuing affect of this event is that his thoughts lead to the making of lower costing and higher quality iron. Later on, the iron was used to manufacture and create railroads. -
Key Improvement by James Watt
A Scottish engineer, James Watt, made enhancements on the steam engine to make it more effectual. The steam engine was at first created by Thomas Newcomen. The enduring result of this is that the enhanced steam engine was later on used with steamships and locomotives. -
Eli Whitnry creates Cotton Gin
Born in Massachusetts, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. His invention changed the whole cotton industry by allowing it to pick cotton with hundreds less people needed. -
Edward Jenner created the vaccine for smallpox
Born in England in 1749, Edward Jenner located or discovered the first vaccine for smallpox. He discovered that milkmaids who had been contaminated with cowpox, a much less fatal disease, did not contact smallpox. To test his theory he injected a young boy cowpox and that later on exposed him to smallpox. No symptoms of smallpox were shown. -
The First Picturewas ever taken
During the summer of 1827, Joseph Niepce took the first picture ever taken. Before this occurred, the camera was originally only for viewing and drawing a certain area. -
The Factory Acts Passed in England
The factory acts, which were child labor reform laws, were passed in the early 1800's to remove kids from the cotton mills younger than 8 or 9 and to lower a child's workday to twelve hours. The enduing impact is that in the mid-1800's more laws were passed to shorten the workday for females and to make education for child workers necessary. -
The Writings of Karl Max and Friedrich Engels
A German Philosoper, Karl Marx, and a German Socialist, Friedrich Engels, wrote a brochure named "The Communist Manifesto." In the brochure, described their assumption that there was a struggle between social classes and they also had a supposition that economics was the primary power source in history.
