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Pages in category "People of the Industrial Revolution" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 212 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "People of the American Industrial Revolution" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
People of the Industrial Revolution (6 C, 212 P) S. ... Pages in category "Industrial Revolution" The following 128 pages are in this category, out of 128 total.
The name Luddite (/ ˈ l ʌ d aɪ t /) occurs in the movement's writings as early as 1811. [3] The movement utilised the eponym of Ned Ludd, an apocryphal apprentice who allegedly smashed two stocking frames in 1779 after being criticized and instructed to change his method. The name often appears as captain, General, or King Ludd.
The Industrial Revolution concentrated labour into mills, factories, and mines, thus facilitating the organisation of combinations or trade unions to help advance the interests of working people. The power of a union could demand better terms by withdrawing all labour and causing a consequent cessation of production.
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
This is a list of lists of people by occupation. Each is linked to a list of notable people within that profession. Lists of lists. Actors. Star Wars actors;
Richard Arkwright (1733–1792), revolutionised the cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution; once called the "father of the Industrial Revolution" Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955), inventor of the World Wide Web; Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), inventor of the Bessemer Process which was the first way of mass-producing steel