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Industrial Revolution (textiles (domestic-factory (bigger machines= bigger…
Industrial Revolution
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agriculture
open field system- commitee decided your crops, impossible to experiment, scatterd strips lots of time spent travelling between field, all animals grazed together=disease, breeding not controlled.
enclosure- split with biggest farmers left little for others, experiments carried out = improvements in agriculture, many new wealthy landowners contributed to industrial revolution by investing, people forced to leave countryside to city supplied workforce for revolution
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JETHRO TULL- seed drill = even spacing, saved seed better yield
revolution caused
17/18c largest colonial empire= loads of raw materials e.g cotton and minerals cheaply,
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population booming= extra people for large workforce, more people= more customers to buy goods
new inventions, UK large supply of coal and iron ore = machine making
IRON AND STEAM
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JAMES WATT 1764 improved newcomens engine, most important invention used in mills, mines and factories