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Updated: 29 Feb 2024
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Created byAmaree Echols
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Late 18th century20th centuryJohn Kay develops the flying shuttleJames Watt patents an improved steam engineEdmund Cartwright develops the power loomGeorge Stephenson's locomotive, the Rocket, attains a speed of 45 kilometers (28 miles) per hourReform bill expands electorate to House of CommonsFactory Act restricts employment of women and children in textiles factoriesMines Act restricts employment of women and children in minesCrystal Palace exhibition in LondonHenry Ford introduces the assembly line to the manufacture of automobilesBy the end 19th centuryMid 18th centuryAmerican resourcesArtisansEdmund CartwrightJames WattAfter 170918th centuryWealth of NationsMid 19th centuryEarly 19French firmsIndustrialization in North AmericaAmerican industrialization beganlate 19th centuryend of the 19th centuryCrystal Palaceearly 19th centurylate 19th centuryLater 19th centuryMid 19 centuryLast half of the 19th centurybritish parliamentSocial Reformearly 19th centuryCrystal Palace (copy)Periods
The Calico Acts"mule"Late 18th century the mid 19th centuryJosiah WedgewoodLudditesUnification of GermanyIron and steelEli WhitneyBritian and FranceUrbanization and MigrationDuring the 19th and 20th centuries, about fifty million Europeans migrated to the Western Hemisphere, and this flow of humanity accounts for much of the stunning demographic growth of the AmericasBritish migrantsUtopian SocialistsKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsSocial ReformThe International Division of Labor
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