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The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution. Readings: Smith, et al., 791-802, 812-818. 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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The Industrial Revolution

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  1. The Industrial Revolution Readings: Smith, et al., 791-802, 812-818

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Why ENGLAND? • Science most advanced • Protestantism • Agricultural Revolution most advanced in England

  5. New Technology

  6. New Technology • John Kay—Flying Shuttle(1733) • James Hargreaves—Spinning Jenny (1764) • Samuel Cromptom— “The Mule” (1779) • Edmund Cartwright—Power Loom (1775) • Eli Whitney– Cotton Gin (1793)

  7. 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

  8. Engines • Savery—1698 • Necomen—1705 • 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

  9. England and the Consequences of the Industrial Revolution • Technology used to transform means of war • 1851—England produced 2/3 of the world’s coal. • England produced ½ the world’s iron and cotton. • Problems in factories • Standard of living?

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