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James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. He improved the steam engine in 1776 which was very important for the Industrial Revolution. -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and a chemist. In 1776 he improved the steam engine. -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution. -
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in political economy and demography -
Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds. -
Mutual-Aid Socialities
Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. -
Charles Darwin
He was a English naturalist, geologist, and biologist known for his evolutionary biology. -
Karl Marx
He was a German philosophers, political theorist, historian, and socialist. -
Alfred Nobel
Alfred was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. -
Social Democracy
Social democracy is considered a middle course between capitalism and socialism. Social democracy aims to use democratic action for promoting freedom and equality in the economy and opposes what is seen as inequality and oppression that laissez-faire capitalism causes -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism was used by advocates of the supposed ideologies or ideas. The term draws upon the common meaning of Darwinism, which includes a range of evolutionary views, but in the late 19th century was applied more specifically to natural selection as first advanced by Darwin to explain speciation in populations of organisms -
Automobile
German mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the first practical automobile, the Benz Patent Motorcar. The vehicle was powered by an internal-combustion engine. -
Airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903 -
Assembly Line
This is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed. -
Communism
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and need