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James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 steam engine -
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Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was a English economist Cleric and Scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography -
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacture and Social reformer and a founder of Utopian socialism and the Cooperative movement. -
Cotton Gin
a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America's leading export. -
Interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney used Interchangeable parts to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century -
Germ Theory
Louis Pasteur developed the modern Germ Theory in 1806. He proved that food spoiled because of contamination by invisible bacteria and not because of spontaneous generation -
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Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer was an English inventor who's steel making process would be the most important technique. -
Dynamo
Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter. -
Socialism
Socialist movements rejected laissez-faire capitalism and blamed it and the industrial revolution for horrible working and living conditions. People felt that society and government failed to protect the people. Create planned communities that were self-sufficient where wealth and property should be shared. -
Mutual-Aid Societies
In the mid-18th century, as the Industrial Revolution hastened the growth of British towns, the friendly society system became well established. Sometimes they were called fraternal societies, mutual aid societies, or benefit clubs. Similar organizations developed in the United States in the 19th century. -
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi used radio waves to transmit signals over a distance of several kilometers. He developed the technology in subsequent years. -
Communism
Communism emerged from the socialist movement of the 19th century Europe. When the Industrial Revolution came along, socialists blamed capitalism and democracy for the proletariat's hardships. This was a class made up of factory workers workings under dangerous conditions. -
Social Gospel
The social gospel's origins are often traced to the rise of late 19th-century urban industrialization, immediately following the Civil War. Largely, but not exclusively, rooted in Protestant churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus' ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age” capitalism. -
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. -
Automobile
The automobile was invented by Henry Ford in 1908. Henry Ford was an American Inventor and business man and is famous for many other inventions.