| A | B |
|---|
| James Hargreaves | Inventor of the Spinning Jenny |
| Richard Arkwright | Inventor of the water frame |
| Samuel Crompton | Inventor of the Spinning Mule |
| Edmund Cartwright | Inventor of the power loom |
| Robert Bakewell | Selective Breeding |
| Jethro Tull | Seed Drill |
| Charles Townshend | Crop Rotation |
| Thomas Newcomen | Developer of an early steam engine used to pump water out of mines |
| James Watt | Turned Newcomen's atmospheric engine into a genuine steam engine |
| Michael Bolton | Entrepreneur who teamed with Watt to market the steam engine |
| Richard Trevithick | Pioneered the first steam powered locomotive |
| George Stephenson | Developer of the "Rocket" |
| "Rocket" | Powerful locomotive used on the Liverpool to Manchester route |
| Great Exhibition | British world fair which featured the Crystal Palace |
| John Cockerill | British industrialist who established a profitable industrial plant in Belgium |
| Friedrich List | U.S. Consul to Germany who believed that protective tariffs were necessary to develop a nation's industry |
| Credit Mobilier, Kreditanstalt | Examples of joint-stock banks used to fund industry on the continent |
| Great Famine | Potato blight that struck Ireland; 1 million+ died; 2 mil migrated |
| Edwin Chadwick | Secretary of the Poor Commission |
| Report on the Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain | Report that suggested that cities needed to develop sanitation systems to eliminate disease |
| Combination Acts of 1799/1780 | Legislation that outlawed associations of workers; later repealed |
| Robert Owen | Factory owner and social reformer who promoted cooperative living over competitive living |
| Luddites | Skilled workers who attempted to destroy the machines that they felt threatened their livelihood |
| Chartism | First important political movement of working men; presented People's Charter to Parliament |
| Factory Acts | Series of acts designed to limit the exploitation of women and children in the factories |
| Coal Mines Act | Act which eliminated the employment of boys and women in mines |
