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Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution. By: Abbey Martin. Influential Inventors. Lewis Paul invented the roller spinner which allowed more efficient spinning. James Hargreaves invented the jenny John Kay invented the flying shuttle which allowed for faster weaving. Women.

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. Industrial Revolution By: Abbey Martin

  2. Influential Inventors • Lewis Paul invented the roller spinner which allowed more efficient spinning. • James Hargreaves invented the jenny • John Kay invented the flying shuttle which allowed for faster weaving.

  3. Women • Women and children were the preferred labor for factories • Cheap labor • Women’s roles in the home drastically changed after beginning work in the factories.

  4. Upper Class Citizens • Power shifted from land owners, to factory owners.

  5. Transportation • Tramways were used in the mines. • George Stevenson built the first public railway. -The railway failed due to expenses. • James Watt invented the steam engine.

  6. Improvements in Technology • New crops • Oxen replaced by horses • Insect controlling methods • Metal farm tools replaced wood tools.

  7. Improvements on Coal Mining • Safety lamps for better tunnel vision • Ventilation systems • Gunpowder to blast at coal seams.

  8. Initial Impacts of Industry • Couples married earlier • Housing was provided by the employers • Social classes were switched around • Higher wages in industry, than farming (even though they were still extremely low.) • Typhoid and Cholrea breakouts in the 1800’s.

  9. Modern Effects • Workers unions • Mass transportation of products • Women’s social status’ increased • Industrialized Europe and the European colonies

  10. Bibliography • Montagna, Joseph A. "The IndustrialRevolution". Yale University. Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, 2012. Web. 26 Jan. 2012.

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