The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution

• Readings Spodek 561-595

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The Industrial Revolution

• Has its main effects from 1780-1850
• Time of transformation of work
• From hand to machine
• From rural areas to cities
• Created social classes
• Workers, the Proletariat
• Changed family life

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Changes which occurred because of the Industrial
Revolution

• Migration to industrialized nations
• Changed way of buying and selling
• Creation of new leisure activities
• Transferred balance of power toward
  industrialized countries

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Why ENGLAND?

• Science most advanced
• Protestantism
• Agricultural Revolution most advanced in England

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New Technology
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New Technology

• John KayFlying Shuttle(1733)
• James HargreavesSpinning Jenny (1764)
• Samuel Cromptom The Mule (1779)
• Edmund CartwrightPower Loom (1775)
• Eli Whitney Cotton Gin (1793)

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New Bottleneck is Factory problems

• Factory location because of Factory size.
• Fuel problems
• England was running out of wood
• Coal accumulated water in the mines so that pumps
  had to be used

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Engines

• Savery1698
• Necomen1705
• John Wilkinson did a boring mill in 1774
• James Watt did the steam engine in 1775
• George Stephenson came up with the The Iron
  Horse in 1829

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England and the Consequences of the Industrial
Revolution

• Technology used to transform means of war
• 1851England produced 2/3 of the worlds coal.
• England produced ½ the worlds iron and cotton.
• Problems in factories
• Standard of living?