Everything Flashcards
Abraham Darby
Ironmaster
Foundryman
karl benz
three wheel motor wagon
bessemer
The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel
coal
A major foundation for American industrialization in the nineteenth-century
working class conditions
Harsh conditions in their homes to face harsher conditions in factories and textile mills
david ricardo
An 18th-century English economist renowned for his contributions to economic theory
darwin
natural selection idea
enclosure
The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.
factories
A method of manufacturing that emerged in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
florence nightengle
nursing
ford
car
james watt
steam engine
jeremy betheam
Advocated radical political and social reform
john stuart mill
Influential philosopher, economist, politician, and senior official in the East India Company
john wesley
first synthetic plastic
karl marx
A step in the historical materialism of the world.
lassez-faire
An economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention
louis sullivan
American architect, regarded as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and identified with the aesthetics of early skyscraper design.
luddites
People violently opposed to technological change
marconi
wireless telegraph
middle class(cult of domesticy)
An ideology that created a new idea about the role of women in society.
morse
Created the original telegraph
Electromagnetic capabilities - that’s why it worked
pasteur
Chemist
Rabies vacciene
industrial reveloution results
The Industrial Revolution shifted societies from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.