Industrial Revolution

Began in Great Britain

New Technology

New Machinery

Steam engine

Telegraph

Smelting

Sewing machine

Stronger, cheaper iron

Abraham Darby

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Thomas Newco

Production of good shifts from hand tools to machinery

Life before 1750

People grow their own food and trade local markets

life after 1750

people lived in rural villages

People travel by foot horse or sail

Buy food and clothing made elsewhere

people work in industrial towns or cities

travel by train or steamship

Farming Advancements

Fertilizer

Seed drill

enclosure movement

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