Unit 6 History People
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia. Also, until his death, he was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor who invented the power loom. A power loom is a loom powered by a line shaft, and this invention was one of the major developments in industrialization of weaving during the Industrial Revolution.
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. Russia's last czar.
Henry Cort
Henry Cort was an English ironmaster who began refining iron from pig iron to bar iron using innovative production systems. Henry cort also revolutionized the British iron industry with his use of grooved rollers to finish iron and through this he invented the puddling process.
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in England. He was one of three inventors who developed the process of spinning with the spinning wheel.
James Watt
James Watt was an inventor and engineer who improved the steam engine, which affected the Industrial Revolution. Steam engines were mainly being used to pump water out of mines.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky is known for how he waged Russia's revolution with Vladimir Lenin and helped defeat forces opposed to Bolshevik control.
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton is known for his development of the steamboat. The steamboat was used in coastal bays, harbors, and rivers throughout the East Coast.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist and demographer who is known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply. He explains this in his book "Essay on the Principle of Population."
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who served as the head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.