Industrial revolution
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGINS IN BRITAIN
The in 1700, there were small farms. Landowner experimented with more productive and harvesting to boost crop yields. Crop rotation to be one of the opments by the scientific farmer.
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WHY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGAN IN ENGLANd
-Water power and coal to fuel the new machines.
-Iron ore to construct machines, tools, and buildings.
-Rivers for inland transportation.
-Harbors from which merchant ships set sail.
INVENTIONS SPUR INDUSTRIALIZATION
-1831 Cyrus McCormick's reaper boosted American wheat production.
-1837 Samuel F. B. Morse, a New England painter, first sent electrical signals over a telegraph.
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-1851 I. M. Singer improved the the sewing machine by inventing a foot treadle (see photograph.
-1876 Scottish - born inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
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Improvements in Transportation
-Watt's Steam Engine, The James Watt a mathematical instrument maker, At the University of Glasgow in Scotland. In 1765 Watt figured out a way to make the steam engine.The wore faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.
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Water Transportation
-Robert Fulton
He built a steamboat called the Clermont, which made its first successful trip in 1807. The clermont later ferried passengers up and down New York's.
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Road Transportation
The working in the early 1800s, McAdam equipped road beds with a layer of large stones for drainage.
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Industrialization Changes Life
The people wale work for higher wages in factories than for farms. To caused their homes.
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Industrial Cities Rise
The urbanization city building the movement to the cities. In the 1800 and 1850, the European cities boasting more than 100,000 inhabitants from 22 to 47. Most of the Europe's urban at least the doubled in the population.
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Living Conditions
The Epidemics of the deadly disease cholera regularly swept through. The Great Britain's industrial cities, in the 1842, a British government study showed an average life to be 17 years for working-class people. The compared with 38 years in a nearby rural area. The Elizabeth Gasket's Mary Barton (1848) is a work but the presents of the urban life experienced by many rural area.
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Working Conditions
As a result, the worker apent 14 hours a day at the job, 6 days a week. To work did not to change with the seasons, to there was no government program to provide aid in case of the life span ten years shorter than that of other workers. The mining industry because they were the cheapest source of labor.
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Class Tensions Grow
A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers.
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The Working Class
The years 1800 to 1850, however, laborers, or the working class, saw little improvement in their living conditions.
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Positive Effects of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution produced a number of other benefits as well. Because the Industrial Revolution created a demand for engineers as well as clerical and professional workers, it expanded educational opportunities.
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Long-Term Effects
The long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution are still. Most people today in industrialized countries can afford consumer goods that have been luxuries 50 or 60 years ago. The much improved over those of worker in the 19th century. Have of the allowed local, state, and federal governments to invest in urban improvements and raise the standard of living of most city dwellers.
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The Mills of Manchester
"The from this filthy sewer pure gold flows,"wrote Alexis de Tocqueville. The after he visited Manchester in 1835. But wealth flowed from its factories, the mill owners and the new middle class.
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