Timeline project 1

By 25jacobsc

  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century.

  • Seed drill

    Seed drill
    Tull made early advances in planting crops with his invention of the seed drill. A machine that made it much much easier to plant.

  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort
    British discoverer of the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron.

  • Nicolas LeBlanc

    Nicolas LeBlanc
    French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt.

  • Robert Owen

    Robert Owen
    Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement.Owen believed that if a community shared everything and made communal decisions, they could create a utopia. Helped in the invention of the spinning mules.

  • spinning mules

    spinning mules
    made it easier to produce cotton yarn and thread. The machine not only made production faster, but it also produced a higher-quality yarn.

  • puddling Machine

    puddling Machine
    A machine made to make the process of turning pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat. This machine made the mass production of wrought iron much much easier.

  • Leblanc process

    Leblanc process
    it allowed the economically viable production of industrial quantities of sufficiently pure soda from easily obtainable raw materials. mainly used in making soda ash 'sodium carbonate'

  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
    Karl Marx is best known for his theories that led to the development of Marxism. His ideas also served as the basis for communism.

  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field
    American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

  • Communism Manifesto

    Communism Manifesto
    proposed this new ideology in his Communist Manifesto, which he wrote with Friedrich Engels in 1848. The manifesto emphasized the importance of class struggle in every historical society, and the dangerous instability capitalism created.

  • first transatlantic cable

    first transatlantic cable
    The cable functioned for only three weeks, but was the first such project to yield practical results. It allowed people from europe and people from the united states to be connected for the first time.