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Indust.Rev. People
Important names of the Industrial Revolution & Romanticism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thomas Newcomen | steam engine |
| Mary Shelley | Wrote "Frankenstein" |
| Robert Burns | Poet/Songwriter |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Poet, Short Stories of Suspense |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote "The Scarlet Letter" |
| John Kay | The Flying Shuttle |
| Franz Schibert | Composer, lieder #605 songs |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton gin |
| Francisco Goya | Creepy, weird paintings |
| George Stephenson | Locomotive steam engine (train) 1st Railroad in England |
| James Hargreaves | Spinning Jenney |
| Richard Trevithick | High-Pressure Locomotives |
| Richard Arkwright | Water frame |
| James Watt | Fire engine |
| Robert Fulton | Steam boat |
| William Wordsworth | Wrote about nature |
| "Romanticism" | Philosophy that places greater emphasis on emotion than reason |
| "Industrial Revolution" | Label for the developing machine age in Europe |
| "Factory System" | Placing production in larger spaces with specialization of labor |