Students will write a 2-3 page research paper on people and inventions who contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
Industrial Revolution developed as production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines, and sources of energy shifted from human and animal power to steam and, later, electricity.
Like the Enlightenment, which occurred around the same time, the Industrial Revolution was partly an outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s and 1700s. The Scientific Revolution focused attention on the physical world, and thinkers used the scientific method to conduct controlled experiments.
From its beginnings in Britain, it spread to the rest of Europe, to North America, and around the globe.
- Eli Whitney
- Samuel Slater
- Andrew Carnegie
- John D. Rockefeller
- J. P. Morgan
- James Watt
- John Kay
- Robert Owen
- Karl Marx
- Thomas Malthus
- Adam Smith
- David Ricardo
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Henry Bessemer
- Alfred Nobel
- Michael Faraday
- Thomas Edison
- Nicholas Tesla
- Louis Pasteur
- Orville & Wilbur Wright
- Joseph Lister
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Robert Koch
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Joseph Locke
- Thomas Newcomen
- Jethro Tull
- Abraham Darby
- John Wilkinson
- Sir Rickard Arkwright
- Alessandro Volta
