Inventors
Inventors 2
Inventions
Acts
Important People
100
Who invented the Spinning Jenny
What is James Hargreaves
100
Who invented the Flying Shuttle
What is James Kay
100
A simple weaving machine
What is Spinning Jenny
100
Makes it illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay or better working conditions
What is Combination Acts
100
Father of Economics
What is Adam Smith
200
Who invented the first productive steam engine
What is Thomas Newcomen
200
Who invented the new steam engine with separate condenser
What is James Watt
200
Hooked spinning machines to a water wheel
What is water frame
200
Provides first small regulations of child labor in textile factories
What is Factory Act
200
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published
What is The Communist Manifesto
300
Who invented the water frame
What is Richard Arkwright
300
Invented the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively
What is Henry Bessemer
300
Allowed one worker to spin eight spindles at one time
What is Spinning Jenny
300
Gives government responsibility to ensure public health for housing and sweage
What is Public Health Act
300
British doctor who developed the world's first successful vaccine
What is Edward Jenner
400
Invented a successful steam-driven paddle wheel
What is William Symington
400
Who invented the spinning mule which combined spinning and weaving into one machine
What is Samuel Crompton
400
Allowed weavers to weave faster
What is Flying Shuttle
400
Made school compulsory for children up to age 10. (1880)
What is Education Act
400
A process for making steel was named after Henry Bessemer
What is Bessemer Process
500
Who invented the first steam engine
What is Thomas Savery
500
Who invented the power loom
What is Edmund Cartwright
500
Savery's invention that had limitations
What is first steam engine
500
Made school compulsory for children up to age 14 (1918)
What is Education Act of 1918
500
Experimented with ways to increase agricultural production
What is Jethro Tull
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