MT 8 - Industrial Revolution (people) Flashcards
John Kays
Flying Shuttle - weave faster
Robert Owen
Socialist Utopias - New Harmony and New Lanark
Karl Marx
Communism - proletariate will overthrow the bourgeoisie in a violent revolution
George Stephenson
Blücher - first flanged-wheel locomotive (rails above ground)
Robert Fulton
Clermont - first paddle-wheel steamboat
Henry Ford
assembly line - revolutionized to production of the automobile
James Watt
steam engine - powered by coal, move factories off of rivers and streams
Orville & Wilbur Wright
flight of an airplane - air travel
Thomas Edison
incandescent light bulb - produce light all day
Guglielmo Marconi
radio waves - non-wired communication
James Hargreaves
Spinning Jenny - faster way to create thread
Edmund Cartwright
water-powered loom - work in factories alongside a stream or river
Alexander Graham Bell
telephone - long distance communication instantly