Industrial Age Business Analysis

Flashcards covering the definitions, key inventions, and prominent inventors of the Industrial Age based on the lecture notes.

Industrial Age

A period of history beginning around 1760 in Great Britain characterized by a shift from hand tools to power-driven machines, factory concentration, and mass production.

Industrial City

A place where several factories are built or located for manufacturing products such as textiles, paper products, electronic parts, and chemical products.

Edmund Cartwright

The designer of the first power loom in 1784, which was built in 1785 and refined over the next 47 years.

Lancashire loom

A refined design of the power loom created by Kenworthy and Bullough that made the operation completely automatic.

Thomas Savery

The inventor who patented a pump with hand-operated valves in 1698 to raise water from mines using suction produced by condensing steam.

Richard Trevithick

The inventor who patented a "high pressure engine" and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails in 1802.

James Hargreaves

The English inventor of the spinning jenny, named after his young daughter.

Spinning jenny

The first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine, which revolutionized textile production.

Robert Fulton

The individual generally credited as the inventor of the steamboat in 1814.

Steam press

An invention that made the printing of materials, such as newspapers, cheaper, easier, and faster.

Johannes Gutenberg

A political exile from Mainz who perfected a printing machine known as the Gutenberg press for commercial use by 1450.

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone

The inventors who patented the first commercial electric telegraph in 1837.

Morse Code

A telecommunication method named after Samuel Morse that encodes text characters as sequences of dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

Information Age

The period that is often considered to have supplanted the Industrial Age in the late 20th century.