industrial revolution figures

  • Alfred noble

    Alfred noble
    Alfred Nobel was an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and businessman who also wrote poetry and drama.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    Karl Marx was most famous for The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. A call to arms for the proletariat workers of the world unit.
  • thomas edison

    thomas edison
    contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and the telephone.
  • henry Bessemer

    henry Bessemer
    Sir Henry Bessemer FRS was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950.
  • Robert Owen

    Robert Owen
    Welsh manufacturer turned reformer, one of the most influential early 19th-century advocates of utopian socialism.
  • automobile

    automobile
    a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and able to carry a small number of people.
  • Assembly line

    Assembly line
    An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
  • cotton Gin

    cotton Gin
    a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
  • Airplane

    Airplane
    a metal vehicle that is used to move from 1 place to another at a very fast speed.
  • utilitarianism

    utilitarianism
    In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals.
  • spinning jenny

    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 early Industrial Revolution.
  • socialism

    socialism
    Socialism is a political philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic and social systems, which are characterised by social ownership of the means of production, with an emphasis on democratic control,
  • communism

    communism
    Communism is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and is current within the socialist movement, whose goal is the establishment of a communist society.
  • social democracy

    social democracy
    Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy.
  • social gospel

    social gospel
    The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century.