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Revolution
Complete turnaround
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Age of industry
Other name for the industrial revolution
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1760-1900
Dates for age of industry
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Subsistence farming
World model for living
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Mastery of food supply
Key essential to survival
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Work is a gift of god and a way of glorifying him
Protestant work ethic
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Jethro tull
Seed drill
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John Deere
Steel plow
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Cyrus mccormick
Mechanical reaper
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Canals
Man made waterways
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Clipper ships
Improved ships that went faster
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Clermont
The name for the first practical steamship
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Robert fulton
Who invented the first practical steamship
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George Stephenson
First practical steam locomotive
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Gottlieb daimler
First gas internal combustion engine
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Rudolf diesel
Invented a more powerful petrol-based internal combustion engine
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Penny post
Less expensive mail in england
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Karl Benz Henry Ford
The men who invented the first two car companies
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Samuel morse
Electric telegraph: Morse code
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Cyrus field
First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
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Alexander graham bell
Invented the telephone
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Marconi
Electromagnetic telegraph message
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John dalton
Atomic theory
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Michael faraday
Discoveries that led to electric motor/generator
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Lord kelvin
Absolute temperature scale
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James maxwell
Foundation for electrical engineering
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Richard arkwright
Spinning frame
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Samuel crompton
Spinning mule
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Edmund cartwright
Power loom
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Enclosure movement
When farmers closed off harvest land for sheep and people moved to the US
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Eli whitney
Cotton gin
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Cotton
Most prominent crop in the south
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James watt
Coal burning steam engine
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Sir Humphrey davey
Miners safety lamp
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Henry Bessemer William kelly
Invented Bessemer process
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Water
Best mode of transportation in england
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Domestic system
Work done in private homes/ shops
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Factory system
Overruled the domestic system
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Real weages
Wages left over after cost of living
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Textiles
Began industrial revolution; clothes
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John kay
Flying shuttle
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James hargreaves
Spinning jenny
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Pierre and Marie Curie
Discovered polonium and radium (both people)
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Edward jenner
First vaccine
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Louis Pasteur
Germ theory of disease
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Germ theory of disease
Every disease comes from a specific type of germ
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Thomas edison
Invented electric incandescent lightbulb
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Joseph lister
Antiseptics
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Gross national product
What is the total output of goods and services
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Capitalism
Absolute private control of industry
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Free entersprise
Other name for capitalism
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Spanish American war
Display of US power
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Rockefeller
Oil
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Carnegie
Steel
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Morgan
Banking/money