Industrial Revolution

New Technology

Begun in Great Britain

Production of goods shifts from hand tools to machinery

Life before 1750

Farming Advancements

Fertilizer

Seed Drill

Enclosure Movement

Crop Rotation

New Machinery

Steam Engine

Sewing Machine

Smelting

Telegraph

Life after 1750

Buy food and clothing made elsewhere

People work in industrial towns or cities

Travel by train or steamship

People grow their own food and trade in the local markets

People lived in rural villages

People travel by foot, horse, or sail

Stronger, Cheaper, Iron

Abraham Darby

Thomas Newcomen

James Watt

Samuel Morse

Great Britain=England=United Kingdom

Government Policies

Abundant of Capital or Money

Lots of natural Resources

Coal

Waterwaus

Iron Ore