Industrial Rev.
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- charles lyell
- showed evidence that Earth formed over millions of years
- proleteriat
- working class
- arkwright
- inventor of water frame, used water power to speed up spinning
- jethro tull
- invented the seed drill, deposited seeds in a row
- temperance mvmt
- campaign to limit or ban use of alcohol
- david ricardo
- agreed with malthus, don't help poor
- enclosure movement
- landowners took over and fenced off lans formly shared with peasant farmers, output & profits rose, migrated to cities
- thomas edison
- made 1st light bulb
- charles townshend
- urged farmers to grow turnips
- Thomas malthus
- believed food would die out while population grew
- john wesley
- founder of methodist church, helped channel anger and social reform
- Abraham Darby
- pioneered new methods to produce iron, iron has better quality & less expensive
- robert fulton
- used Watt's steam engine to power Clermont up Hudson Rv breaking records
- Julia brainerd Hall/Charles Hall
- siblings, develop aluminum producing process
- James Watt
- "Father of the Industrial Revolution", improved Newcomen's (steam) engine, created power source of I.R.
- Henry bessemer
- developed process to purify iron ore and produce steel
- wright brothers
- designed 1st airplane, like bicycle
- john dalton
- developed modern atomic theory
- alfred nobel
- swedish, invented dynamite
- Michael Faraday
- created 1st simple electric motor & first dynamo
- turnpike
- privately built roads that charged a fee for travelers
- guglielmo marcom
- italian, invented radio