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Images from the Industrial Revolution

Images from the Industrial Revolution. 1797-1861 England and U.S. Before the Industrial Revolution occurs, there is a great improvement in food production. With food supplies increased, the population grows. The first inventions were in the textile industry.

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Images from the Industrial Revolution

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  1. Images from the Industrial Revolution 1797-1861 England and U.S.

  2. Before the Industrial Revolution occurs, there is a great improvement in food production.

  3. With food supplies increased, the population grows.

  4. The first inventions were in the textile industry.

  5. The domestic system meant that spinning and weaving was farmed out at home…

  6. The Flying shuttle 1733

  7. The spinning Jenny…1760’s

  8. The Water Frame 1769

  9. And in America… the Cotton Gin

  10. As the machinery of cloth production became larger and more cumbersome, mills were built along streams, and workers flocked to the mills..

  11. So, steam became a source of energy around 1780.

  12. Steam.. The next frontier. Legend has it that Thomas Wyatt first noticed the power of steam when he observed his mother’s tea kettle.

  13. Steam was soon used to “move” across areas, boats…and in 1829, The ROCKET! The first locomotive.

  14. Railroads changed the landscape. Early on, there were the gauge wars—a famous dispute about how far apart tracks should be.

  15. The smaller distance won—and as a result, railroad cars were less stable.

  16. Villages grew into towns, and towns grew into cities.

  17. Workers crammed into housing so that they could be close enough to hear the “whistle” which announced the workday.

  18. Skilled labor or weavers and spinners was all replaced by machine—machines that produced far better quality goods.

  19. Some suggested smashing the machines that took away their work.

  20. The reverend Ludd encouraged this. His followers were called Luddites. Even today, a “Luddite” is someone who does not embrace change.

  21. The first years of the Industrial Revolution were, for the most part, a horror story.

  22. Workers, desperate for employment, struggled to survive.

  23. Children worked 12-14 hour days.

  24. Young children were maimed in the mines and in the mills.

  25. However, many positive developments occurred. By the early 1800’s steamboats traveled up to 18 miles per hour and trains powered by steam could reach over 25 miles per hour. By 1831, New York’s first railroad opened.

  26. In 1844, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, a way to send signals by electricity over wire. Using a system of dots and dashes, he sent his first “Morse Code”. By 1861, a telegraph line crossed the country. This coincided with the start of the Civil War.

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