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Abraham Darby's Experimentation
In Darby's experimentation, he used coal instead of charcoal to separate iron from its ore. This experiment led him to produce cheaper, nice quality iron. This was used to produce parts for the steam engines. The enduring impact of this event is not only could he build the world's first iron bridge in the 1700's but now, in the modern world, utensils, vehicles, appliances in your and many more things are made of iron that we use daily. -
Key Improvement made by James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish engineer that set out to make improvements on the engine in order to make it more productive. This would be an important source of the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine also powers locomotives and steamships. The enduring impact of this event is that it ended the era of renewable energy. -
The Land Enclosure movement
The Land Enclosure movement is when English farmers made the process of enclosing common lands to individual holdings quicker for the benefit of landholders that are already wealthy. The enduring impact of this event is that large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities. -
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
The cotton gin is a machine that separates the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate. He invented the cotton gin because raw cotton has grown rapidly and had to be cleaned by hand in a limited amount of time. He thought that it would help people not do so much labor with such a time-consuming task. The enduring impact of this event is even though it reduced labor to this day and people still use the cotton gin, for example, to make beds, clothes, etc. -
The downfall of the "putting out" system
The production in the putting out system was very slow, therefore people were trying to find new ways to revolutionize the industry. John Kay enabled weavers so they outpaced spinners, James Hargreaves solved the problem by producing the spinning jenny and Richard Arkwright created a spinning machine powered by water. It was unfortunate because the new machines were outshining the putting out system. The enduring impact of this event is workers and machines worked together to produce goods. -
The Factory Acts passed in England
The Factory Acts were designed to help children working in factories. The government passed this act because young children were working too many hours in a workplace with horrible living conditions. This act mainly focused on the age that children can start working and also limited the amount of hours children work during the day. The enduring impact of this event is that in the 20th century the age to start working is 16 not 13, the living conditions are not bad because of The Factory Act. -
The writings of Karl Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Engels wrote a pamphlet called The Communist Manifesto. In, The Communist Manifesto, Marx supposed that economics was the driving force in history. He thought that "the history of class struggles between the haves and the have-nots." This means that workers would take control of the means of production and set up a communist society. The enduring impact of this event is that now, in the modern world, wealth and power is shared equally more.
