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Agricultural Revolution
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-The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals
- no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering - Revolution Increasingly aggressive attitudes towards investment and management of land that increased the production of food in the 1700s. - Increased migration to cities b/c of Enclosure Acts -Increased standard of living because there's more food - contributing factor to the consumer revolution |
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Capital
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-Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing
- Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth. |
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Daniel Defoe
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-born Daniel Foe
-was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe -English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders (1660-1731) |
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Steam Engine
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-A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion
- Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Savery built the first steam engines, but they were inefficient - James Watt vastly improved the steam engine |
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James Watt
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-was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world
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Henry Cort
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-was an English ironmaster
- during the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems -In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore developed the puddling furnace -allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke -he also developed heavy-duty, steam-powered rolling mills, which were capable of spewing out iron in every shape and form |
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Richard Trevithick
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-Won a bet of several thousand dollars
-Hauled ten tons on iron over nearly ten miles of track in a steam-driven locomotive - invented the steam locomotive- early 1800s; England; important because it was possible to transport freight/passengers faster and cuts travel time |
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rocket
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- invented by George Stephenson
- sped down the track of the just-completed Liverpool to Manchester Railway at 16 miles per hour |
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Great Exhibition
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-was the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to become a popular 19th-century
-The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the spouse of the reigning monarch, Victoria - It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time -including Charles Darwin, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, and George Eliot. |
