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Richard Arkwright
Was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to "cotton lap" prior to spinning. He died in the year 1792 the date he died was August 3, 1792. -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomer's 1712 Newcomer steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. He died in the year 1819 but the date was August 25, 1819. -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
Utilitarianism
Though the first systematic account of utilitarianism was developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the core insight motivating the theory occurred much earlier. That insight is that morally appropriate behavior will not harm others, but instead increase happiness or 'utility. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen, a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one founder of Utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, is best known for efforts to improve working conditions for his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities. Died in the year 1858 and the day he died was November 17, 1858. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements. Dead in the year 1848, the date was August 12, 1848 -
Corporations
One of the original purposes of corporate charters in the United States was to allow groups of people to file lawsuits, and be sued, in courts. The first American corporations were developed in the 1790s, almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin in 1793. He began to work on this project after moving to Georgia in search of work. Given that farmers were desperately searching for a way to make cotton farming profitable, a woman named Catharine Greene provided Whitney with funding to create the first cotton gin. was made on the day of October 28, 1793. -
Interchangeable Parts
The Factory. In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. The muskets his workmen made by methods comparable to those of modern mass industrial production were the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts. -
Socialism
The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed scientific socialism. In the last third of the 19th century, social democratic parties arose in Europe, drawing mainly from Marxism. -
Communism
Foremost among these critics were Karl Marx and his associate Friedrich Engels. In 1848, Marx and Engels offered a new definition of communism and popularized the term in their famous pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. -
Social Democrocy
By 1868–1869, Marxism had become the official theoretical basis of the first social democratic party established in Europe, the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP). -
Social Gospel
Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. The book began his leadership in the Social Gospel movement. Historians consider Gladden to be one of the Social Gospel movement's "founding fathers". In the 20th century, the mantle of leadership was passed to Walter Rauschenbusch. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. Died in the year 1937, day he died was July 20, 1937. -
Airplane
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
