Industrial+Revolution+Intellectual+Development

__**Industrial Revolution**__ __**1800-1870**__

 "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford"

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Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. =**3 paragraphs:**=

The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United Kingdom, and then spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the rest of the world. The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth. In the two centuries following 1800, the world's average per capita income increased over tenfold, while the world's population increased over six fold. In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ... Nothing remotely like this economic behavior has happened before". (matt sec 1)

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 * [|Industrial Revolution] website explains whole era of the industrial revolution and many inventors.
 * [] The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times
 * [|Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution] talks about social and political effects and literary response to the industrial revolution.
 * [|"The Day the World Took Off" Six part video series from the University of Cambridge tracing the question "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin when and where it did."] this website brings you to six videos on the industrial revolution and their origins.
 * [|BBC History Home Page: Industrial Revolution] talks about sirr walter scott and the chemical revolution.
 * [|National Museum of Science and Industry website: machines and personalities] this website talks about the modern world compared to the past.
 * [|//Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living//]The industrial revolution, as the transformation came to be known, caused a sustained rise in real income per person in England and, as its effects spread, in the rest of the Western world.
 * [|Factory Workers in the Industrial Revolution] talks about child labor and gives personal accounts of peoples time in the factroy working.
 * [|Revolutionary Players website] a project supported by the New Opportunities Fund focusing on the history of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands in Britain between the years 1700 and 1830.
 * [|The Industrial Revolution] The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban

(jorden and matt)