Industrial Revolution (2)
Textile industry
from cottage
to factory system
Economic protection: not imported goods
inventions: Steam Engine, Spinning mule, Sewing machine
large scale
Reforms
educational
social
1st infant school
Marxism
labour strikes because of low wages
Mechanisation
mechanical rotation
Human movements
Mechanisation takes command,
Sigfried Gideon, 1948
Consequences
Technological
Economic
Machines replaced humans
New inventions
Adoption of factory system
Wider distribution of wealth
declining of land as a source of wealth
Increase of international trade
from wood to cuel: Infrared Radiation
Social
From rural to Urban areas
working class movements
Women access to work
Infant labour
Oresme investigates the essence of the movement, gaining insight into the nature of speed
E.Marey measured graphically the movement of steam
use of photography
Procedure of ‘chronophotographie’, which render visible movements that human eye cannot perceive —> lack of technical means in order to work properly
achieved in 1912 by F. B. Gilbreth
Mechanization could not become a reality in an age of guilds
Europe begun with the mechanising of simple craft (spinning, weaving, iron making) , America with complicated (miller)
post wars period
Railroads networks accelerated growth of metropoli
mechanisation involves the domestic sphere > electrical appliances
Mechanisation implanted more deeply in the psyche through the senses and in the daily life