Impacts of Individuals

Individual Impact

By Nalin Bhattarai

portraits

Edmund Cartwright, Robert Owen and Joseph Wilson Swan, from left to right.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04802/Robert-Owen

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Wilson-Swan

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=296757&picture=edmund-cartwright

Overview

the Industrial Revolution was a really impactful time in the world, which had a lot of impactful people but today we are going to foucus on, how did Edmund Cartwright, Robert Owen, and Joseph Wilson Swan affect the world?

Robert Owen

Impacts

The impacts of these individuals have help shaped the world as we know it, berfore Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, they were using hand-operated looms which required skilled people to make the fabrics and other products work was slow and demand couldnt be met, but after, everything eventually went right side up, and supply and demand could be met.

before Robert Owen people worked for 14 to 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. but now we have flexiibale work times and holidays, and people who worked in coal mines and things like that could have an edcation just like the rest of us.

if Joseph Wilson Swan hadnt invented the lightbulb we would of had to use candles to light up our house and that is really inconvienet because they dont last for that long and you have to replace them with money, but now we have lightbulb everywhere so we can have a bright light at night. and if Joseph hadnt found the dry photograpic plates we wouldnt have mordern day photography and many movies because there was nothing to film them with.

Robert Owen is widely credited with being the first person to advocate for a universal "8 hours of labor, 8 hours of recreation and 8 hours of rest" approach to work-life balance. he experimented with this concept at his own factories and urged people everywhere to use it, which was way earlier than Karl Marx.

Robert was born into the working class family, he had almost no formal education. But by the age of 22, he was managing a textile mill and he married the daughter of a Scottish mill owner, whose bussines he soon bought.

He rejected long hours for his workers and soon took steps to make child labour less explotative. Although he paid higher than his competitors, he became a wealthy man thanks to the mills high profits.

a recent poster for "Oppenhimer" and an image of charlie chaplin in,"The Kid"

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/644155552932878568/

https://www.ign.com/articles/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-first-poster-year-from-release

https://theconversation.com/robert-owen-born-250-years-ago-tried-to-use-his-wealth-to-perfect-humanity-in-a-radically-equal-society-158402

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-invented-the-lightbulb

https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/physical-electrical-digital/items/show/1112

Edmund Cartwright

Joseph Wilson Swan

https://earth.google.com/web/search/New+Harmony,+IN,+USA/@38.13008966,-87.93239755,117.92874532a,2350.7411036d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCa-3Iw4Mm0dAEZcI9wXygEdAGetIiE6fcyNAIRFZnxazQyJAOgMKATA

https://theconversation.com/robert-owen-born-250-years-ago-tried-to-use-his-wealth-to-perfect-humanity-in-a-radically-equal-society-158402

joseph swan in his house, studying the lightbulb

early dry photographic plates

birds eye view of mordern day new harmony

Birds eye view of a new community in New Harmony. Which was where Robert Owen would test his theory that all that was nessecary to create better human beings was to raise educate and employ them in better circumstances.

Have you ever thought about how light bulb or how photography was invented? well look no further then Joseph Wilson Swan.

Joseph was a english physict and chemist who produced and early version of an electric lightbulb and he also invented the dry photographic plate, which was an important improvement in photography and another step in the devolpment of mordern photographic film.

After serving his apprentiship with a druggist in his native town, he became first assistant and later partner in a firm of some manufacturing chemists in newcastle.

While working with wet photographic, he noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion, by 1871 he had figured out a way to dry the wet plates which started the age of convenience in photography. In 1879, he had a patent for bromide paper, which is commonly used in mordern photographic prints.

• Edmund cartwright was an english inventor and clergyman (male priest). He is know for making the first power loom in 1785 and he also set up a factory in Doncaster, England to manufacture textiles (fabrics). He also designed the wool combing machine, for making rope, and a steam engine powered by achohol.

Not only was he a clergyman; he was also a prolific inventor, but he didnt begin experimanting with until he was in his 40s. In 1784 he visted inventor richard Arkwright's cotton spinning mills in Derbyshire. after visting him, Edmund was inspired to create a better machine for weaving. Although he had no experience in this field and many people thought his ideas were bad, but with the help of a carpenter, he worked to bring his concept to fruition. he compeleted the design in 1784 and won the patent for it in 1785.

https://www.thoughtco.com/power-loom-edmund-cartwright-1991499

photo of a mordern day loom.

Industrial revolution loom.

power loom