Industrial Revolutionary Figures Flashcards
John Kay’s invention
Flying shuttle
Flying shuttle
Sped up weaving process -> More demand for cotton thread
James Watt’s invention
General purpose steam engine
Samuel Crompton’s invention
Spinning mule
Spinning mule
Main device for spinning cotton
Edmund Cartwright’s invention
Power loom
Power loom
Water-driven; Improved weaving process
Eli Whitney
Introduced interchangeable parts to manufacturing process (firearm); Cotton gin
George Stephenson
Father of Railways
George Stephenson’s invention
Steam-powered locomotive
Henry Ford
Creation of assembly line for manufacture of automobiles
Utopian socialists
Fourier + Owens
Charles Fourier
Wanted an equal society; Hated competition of the market; Wanted communities held together by love rather than coercion
Robert Owens
Transformed New Lanark into model industrial community; Education for children
Socialists’ view toward utopian socialists
Hated utopian socialists because their ideal societies cannot help
Marx and Engels
Social problems due to capitalism; Believed capitalism divided people into 2 main classes + police worked with capitalists; Everything served the capitalists
Communist Manifesto
Abolish private property + egalitarian society; Human history = struggle between classes
Elizabeth Bentley
Factory worker; Children’s rights in factories
Samuel Smiles
Middle-class / bourgeoisie; Believes poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government; If work hard → Make more money