Industrial Revolution

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  1. 2. an industry that was a major driver of the Industrial Revolution, with innovations like the spinning jenny and power looms leading to mass production of cloth.
  2. 5. was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
  3. 9. a type of manufacturing that involves producing large quantities of goods using the same methods, a hallmark of the Industrial Revolution.
  4. 10. was prevalent during the Industrial Revolution, with children working long hours in factories, mines, and other dangerous environments.
  5. 14. a period of significant technological and societal transformation, marked by the shift from agrarian and handicraft economies to industrial economies dominated by machine manufacturing
  6. 15. in the mid 18th century this country saw the rise of mechanized manufacturing and the beginning of the industrial revolution and spread to other parts of the world, including continental Europe, North America, and Japan.
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  1. 1. a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen 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.
  2. 3. was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. He is also credited with inventing the first successful light buld.
  3. 4. was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat.
  4. 6. was an invention created during the Industrial Revolution and radically changed factory production, transportation and other industries, first invented in Britian, and most famously being used in trains.
  5. 7. was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. Renowned as the "Father of Railways" due to him inventing the first the steam locomotive. he was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
  6. 8. invented in the industrial revolution are identical components that can be substituted for one another, facilitating mass production and easy replacement.
  7. 11. an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism.
  8. 12. this machine revolutionized the cotton industry by rapidly separating seeds from cotton fibers, boosting cotton production and fueling the Industrial Revolution, particularly in the American South, but also inadvertently strengthening the institution of slavery.
  9. 13. an economic system where the means of production are privately owned, and resources are allocated through markets and competition, with profit as the primary driver, that was heavily used during the industrial revolution.