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What the Industrial Revolution is called in Europe and America
Lasted from 1760-1900 |
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| growing just enough food to feed your family |
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| Mastery of the food supply |
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| the most critical material factor in determining how far a nation may advance |
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| the way of life based on the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God |
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| Plowed, but unused ground |
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| Introduced his reaper to the American farmers |
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| The reaper and thresher combined into one machine |
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| The country which stood to spark an industrial revolution |
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| work was done in small private shops |
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| ever-increasing numbers of people were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages |
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| wages as compared to the cost of living |
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| The Industrial Revolution began in... |
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| England's textile factories |
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| Invented the flying shuttle which allowed one person to weave bolts of cloth instead of two |
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| Invented the spinning jenny, which automatically spun fiber into thread |
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| Invented the water-powered spinning frame on which cotton alone could be spun into thread |
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| Combined the spinning jenny and spinning jenny into the spinning mule |
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| Patented a power loom to replace hand weaving |
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| Forced many peasants and farmers off land, but enabled landholders to control breeding and quality of livestock |
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| Introduced the cotton gin and revolutionized agriculture |
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| A Scotsman who developed a practical, coal-burning steam engine |
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| An English chemist who invented the miner's safety lamp |
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| An Englishman who discovered the Bessemer process, an inexpensive way of converting iron into steel by using currents of air |
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| Discovered the same process as Bessemer despite working independently from him |
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