Industrial Revolution

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    Industrial Revolution

  • Lightning Rod

    Lightning Rod
    The lightning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin and it was placed on the top of a building. When lightning hits the building, the rod would absorb the lightning and prevent anyone from being hurt.

  • Laissez-Fair

    Laissez-Fair
    This economic system was used to not let the government interfere in the workings of the free market.

  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves invented this to make it easier for people to sew.

  • Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
    Was used to quickly and easily separate cotton fibers from their seeds.

  • The Battery

    The Battery
    The Battery was invented by Volta and was named Voltaic Pile

  • The Putting Out System

    The Putting Out System
    a system developed in the 18th century in which tasks were given to people who completed the work in their own home

  • Steam Boat

    Steam Boat
    Robert Fulton created the Steamboat and it is run on steam.

  • The British banned Slave Trade

    The British banned Slave Trade

  • Economic Collapse

    Economic Collapse
    This happened because of the expansion of credit and the banks' unregulated activities. This led to six years of depression.

  • Temperance Movement

    Temperance Movement
    a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

  • Lowell Girls

    Lowell Girls
    Female workers who benefited by working in factories.

  • Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegragh

    Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegragh
    Was used for communication between people using morse code

  • Socialism

    Socialism
    Karl Marx believed that the government should intervene to help peoples lives.

  • The Theory of Evolution

    The Theory of Evolution
    Charles Darwin showed everyone his theory of how humans evolved from apes

  • Vaccines for Diseases

    Vaccines for Diseases
    Louis Pasteur believed that germs caused diseases and created vaccines to cure them.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    The telephone was used to communicate directly with one person.

  • Thomas Edison invents the Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison invents the Light Bulb
    an electric light which produces light with a filament wire heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it, until it glows.

  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism
    The idea that natural selection applied to human society became known as Social Darwinism.

  • Basketball was invented

    Basketball was invented
    James Naismith invented basketball so that people can play indoors on cold days. It grew into being a worldwide sport.

  • The First Radio

    The First Radio
    The radio was used to communicate throughout the world.