Industrial Revolution
c. 1760–c. 1840
Shift to machine manufacturing and steam power.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1760–c. 1840
- Place
- Britain
Who was alive during Industrial Revolution
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744–1812, banker
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
- Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
- Edward Jenner 1749–1823, physician
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834, military leader
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
- Napoleon 1769–1821, military leader
- William Wordsworth 1770–1850, poet
- William Clark 1770–1838, explorer
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831, philosopher
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827, composer
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834, poet
- J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851, painter
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, mathematician
- John Franklin 1786–1847, explorer
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860, philosopher