Industrial Revolution

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    • The first industrial revolution: mechanization
    • The second industrial revolution: mass production
    • The third industrial revolution: automation
    • Mechanization: created new manufacturing activities such as producing steel, textiles, tools, etc.
    • Applied mass production along assembly line which scaled up manufacturing output
    • 1767: spinning machine
    • 1769: steam engine
    • 1787: steamboat
    • 1814: Railroad
    • 1817: bicycle
    • 1829: typewriter
    • 1749: invention of the lightening rod by Benjamin Franklin
    • 1769: invention of the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves
    • 1794- invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney
    • 1844- invention of the telegraph by Samuel Morse
    • 1846- invention of the sewing machine by Elias Howe
    • 1853- invention of the elevator safety break by Elisha Otis
    • 1855- Henry Bessemer invents a process for making steel out of iron
    • 1866 invention of the dynamite by Alfred Noble
    • 1868 invention of the typewriter by Christopher Sholes
    • 1870 Louis Pasteur develops vaccines for diseases
    • Nicolaus Copernicus - in 1543, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is often cited as marking the beginning of the scientific revolution
    • William Gilbert - published books On the Magnet and Magnet Bodies, and the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity
    • Tycho Brahe - known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observation
    • Johannes Kepler - published the first 2 of his 3 laws of planetary motion in 1609
    • Francis Bacon - published Novum Organum in 1620, which outlined a new system of logic based on the process of reduction, which he offered as an improvement over Aristotle's philosophical process of syllogism
    • Galileo Galilei - first Italian astronomer who demonstrated that a projectile follows parabolic path
    • Rene Descartes - published the Discourse on the Method in 1637, which helped to establish the scientific method
    • Antoine van Leewenhoek - Constructed powerful single lens microscope and made observation opening up the microworld of biology
    • Isaac Newton - Law of universal and Newton's three laws of Motion
    • Alexander Koyre - Introduced the term "Scientific Revolution" centering his analysis on Galelei, and the terms was popularized by butterfield in his origin of modern science
    • John Locke - Argued that human mind has blank tablet
    • Robert Boyle - One of the founders of modern chemistry
    • Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen, Jacob Metius - inventors of refracting telescopes
    • Evangelista Torricelli - invented mercury barometer