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- Abraham Darby
- discovered that replacing the charcoal with coke (purified coal) that the process was more efficient and economical
- Adam Smith
- a man who believed in following your own true self interest. He was a philosopher of the Enlightment and influenced the Liberals in the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
- Agricultural Revolution
- a change from food gathering to food producing
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor of the telephone
- Antoine-Henri Becquerel
- the man who discovered radioactivity
- capitalism
- the use of private money or goods to produce a profit
- Charles Darwin
- a naturalist who sailed around the world gathering data on plants, animals, and geology and published the book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- Charles Dickens
- a popular author who wrote the book Hard Times, explaining the conditions of living in the Industrial Revolution.
- Charles Fourier
- a socialist who wanted to create ideal communities that was basically perfect. He is the man responsible for the idea known as utopian socialism.
- Communism
- an economic system esbablished through a dicatorship that abolishes private property and takes over the means of production.
- corporations
- business organizations in which large numbers of people purchased shares of stocks or certificates of parital ownership
- cotton gin
- a machine that seperated the seeds from cotton more quickly and efficiently than doing it by hand
- crop rotation
- a method of alternating different kinds of crops to preserve soil fertility
- domestic system
- system of cloth production in which people worked on cleaning , spinning, and weaving of wool in their homes.
- dynamo
- a electric generator
- Edmund Cartwright
- a preacher who invented the first power loom
- Eli Whitney
- the American inventor that invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
- Entrepreneurs
- people who risked their wealth by investing in new technology or business ventures
- financiers
- people who buy companies as investments
- Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
- two of the most influential socialists that developed scientific socialism
- George Stephenson
- the man who invented the locomotive
- Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz
- the men who put an engine on a horse carriage to create the first automobile
- Gregor Mendel
- the man who discovered the lasw of heredity
- Guglielmo Marconi
- the man who sent the first radio transmissions across the Atlantic
- Henry Cort
- a man who used steam power to improve iron production and used steam to power rolling mills which transformed iron into other shapes.
- Industrial Revolution
- a phase of technological development that began in Britain in the 1750's
- Internal combustion engine
- a machine which burned gasoline
- Ivan Pavlov
- a Russian psychologist who discovered that behavior could be controlled by outside factors. He conducted a famous experiment about the conditioned relex in dogs
- J.P.Morgan
- the man who formed the United States steel Corporation
- James Hargreaves
- a weaver who invented the spinning jenny
- James Watt
- a man who improved upon Newcomen's invention of the steampowered water pump using far less fuel. it also use rotary power.
- Jeremy Bentham
- an English political philosopher who created the philosophy of utlitarianism
- Jethro Tull
- the man who introduced the seed drill and found out that crops grow better without weeds, and he developed the horse-drawn hoe.
- John Dalton
- the man that discovered that all matter is composed of miniature particles called atoms
- John MacAdam and Thomas Telford
- the men who invented the early versions of the automobile
- John Stuart Mill
- a man who felt that the government should be a democracy and should promote educations, but it should stay out of the people's lives as much as possible.
- liberalism
- the belief in the importance of individual liberty in all areas focusing on freedom of conscience, freedom, thought, and speech as well as pursuing your own economic interests.
- locomotive
- a steam powered engine that pulled a train of connected cars on iron rails
- Lord Townshend
- man who used Dutch technique of crop rotations and spread it in Britain
- Louis Pasteur
- the man who discovered bacteria and reated a heat treatment method that destroyed bacteria in certain foods and drinks
- Marie Curie
- awarded the Nobel Prize for physics and then eventually chemistry for her work.
- means of production
- the capital and the equipment needed to produce and exchange goods and use them for the common good of all the people
- Michael Faraday and James Maxwell
- the men who formulated the ideas governing magnetism and electricity
- monopoly
- the dominance of a particular market
- Natural selection
- the belief that those that were better adaped to their environment survived long enough to reproduce and pass those adaptations to their offspring
- Nikolaus August Otto
- the man who developed the internal combustion engine.
- open-field farming
- land was divided into strips and worked by the villagers
- Proletariat
- a new working class that capitalists took advantage of to make their profits.
- Queen Victoria
- she was considred to be the perfect role model of the new roles of middle-class women
- Richard Arkwright
- the man who invented the water frame and started the first factory. He is often known as the "father of the factory system"
- Robert Fulton
- an American inventor and Entrepreneur who invented the steamship
- Robert Owen
- a utopian socialist who established several model communities that followed utopian socialism
- Samuel Morse
- the man who improved the telegraph and created Morse Code
- seed drill
- a machine that planted seeds in rows at the proper depth invented by Jethro Tull
- Seperate spheres
- the idea that men belonged to the world of business and women belonged in the homej.
- Sergei White
- a minister of finance in Russia that pursued a deliberate policy of industrialization
- Sir Francis Galton
- promoted the science of eugenics
- Social Darwinsim
- the theory that portrayed individuals and nations as part of the same struggle for survival as the species
- socialism
- the belief that individual interests must give way to the interests of society as a whole
- spinning jenny
- muscle-powered wooden machine that could spin eight cotton threads at a time, invented by James Hargereaves
- strike
- a general walkout of all workers in the union to receive better pay, hours, or another goal
- Thomas Edison
- inventor the incandescent light bulb
- Thomas Newcomen
- a man who improved the steam-powered water pump
- Thomas Savery
- the inventor of the steam-powered water pump to pump water out of the mines
- Thomas Telford and Gustave Eiffel
- bridge builders who were considreed to be some of the first civil engineers
- trade unions
- a group of arisans who often went on strike against factories, attempting to put them out of business because they were mad that machines had put them out of business
- Trusts
- combinations of similar businesses grouped together under the direction of a single entity
- Urbinization
- the growth of cities
- Utilitarianism
- the belief that laws should be used only if they bring happiness to a large number of the people and if it does not, the law should be abandoned
- Utopian socialism
- a community where people lived and worked together in perfect harmony
- water frame
- large water-powered spinning machine invented by Richard Arkwright
- Wiber and Orville Wright
- used a gasoline-powered engine to fly the first airplane.
- Wilhelm Wundt
- a German experimental physiologist founded the first psychological laboratory. He concluded that human psychology was based on experience and reality.