Steam engine

industrial revolution

By zanderhuston
  • 500

    cotton gin

    cotton gin
    Handheld roller gins had been used in the India since AD 500
  • 1025

    germ theory

    germ theory
    states that germs can lead to disease

  • richard arkwright

    richard arkwright
    english inventor and leading entrepreneur. credited for the spinning frame

  • james watt

    james watt
    scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist improved on the original steam engine

  • spining jenny

    spining jenny
    multi-spindle spinning frame

  • Thomas Robert Malthus

    Thomas Robert Malthus
    English cleric and scholar

  • george stephenson

    george stephenson
    British civil engineer and mechanical engineer known as the father of railways

  • communism

    communism
    a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

  • karl marx

    karl marx
    German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary

  • dynamo

    dynamo
    obsolete electrcal generator

  • tenement

    tenement
    multi occupancy building

  • socialism

    socialism
    Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

  • social gospel

    social gospel
    applies christian ethics to social problem, 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. It was most prominent in the early-20th-century United States and Canada.

  • social darwinism

    social darwinism
    claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Social Darwinists argue that the strong should see their wealth and power increase while the weak should see their wealth and power decrease

  • social democracy

    social democracy
    a political, social and economic philosophy that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented economy.