MT 8 - Industrial Revolution (people) Flashcards

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John Kays

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Flying Shuttle - weave faster

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Robert Owen

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Socialist Utopias - New Harmony and New Lanark

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Karl Marx

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Communism - proletariate will overthrow the bourgeoisie in a violent revolution

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George Stephenson

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Blücher - first flanged-wheel locomotive (rails above ground)

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5
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Robert Fulton

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Clermont - first paddle-wheel steamboat

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6
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Henry Ford

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assembly line - revolutionized to production of the automobile

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James Watt

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steam engine - powered by coal, move factories off of rivers and streams

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8
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Orville & Wilbur Wright

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flight of an airplane - air travel

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Thomas Edison

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incandescent light bulb - produce light all day

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10
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Guglielmo Marconi

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radio waves - non-wired communication

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11
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James Hargreaves

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Spinning Jenny - faster way to create thread

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12
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Edmund Cartwright

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water-powered loom - work in factories alongside a stream or river

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13
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Alexander Graham Bell

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telephone - long distance communication instantly

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