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| term | info |
|---|---|
| Capital | something used on things to get more $. |
| Samuel Crompton | mule. |
| Thomas Newcomen | steam pump (atmospheric engine) |
| Richard Trevithick | steam-powered locomotive |
| The Rocket | George Stevenson |
| Great Exhibition | Show of thousands of inventions at the Crystal Palace 1851 |
| Prince Albert | helped with the improvement of child labor |
| John Cockerill | Built cotton machines. Est. factory in Belgium-pirated British ideas. |
| Fritz Harkort | Initiated engineering industry in Germany. Began the use/construction of railroads |
| Darmstadt Bank | Swedish bank? |
| Harpers Ferry | Town in WV by John Harper-cross the river to the town via ferry. |
| Great Famine | An Irish potato fungus destroyed the overly-relied-on plant. |
| Joshua Fielden | Raised capital for a factory by spinning sheep wool at his farm. |
| Chartism | British workers to improve working condition |
| Factory Acts | Series of laws to help working conditions in factories. |
| Jethro Tull | seed planter, hoe |
| Eli Whitney | cotton gin |
| Richard Arkwright | water frame |
| James Hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| Edmund Cartwright | power loom |
| James Watt | steam and rotary engine |
| Charles Townsend | crop rotation |
| Abraham Darby | use of coke to smelt iron |
| Henry Cort | puddling |
| Robert Fulton | steam boat (Claremont) |
| Friedrich List | rapid industrialization & protective tariffs |
| Credit Mobilier | joint stock corp. of Paris |
| Kreditanstalt | joint stock corp. of Vienna |
| Ruhr Valley | site of Germany’s rich coal resources |
| Edwin Chadwick | championed the cause of urban poor |
| Robert Owen | Cotton magnate & social reformer whose ideas contributed to the trade union mvt. |