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Session 16 Industrial Revolutions 2 - Coggle Diagram
Session 16 Industrial Revolutions 2
Textile Industry
Entrepreneurs providedpoor families with rawmaterials for spinning,weaving, and garmentmaking in their ownhomes.
ECONOMIC PROTECTION:No goods to be imported from India(or other colonies) into the UK
KINSHIP OF INDUSTRY,TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE:Huge investments were made in orderto make processes more efficient(and profitable)
Innovations
James Watt's Steam Engine in 1746
Samuel Crompton's Spinning mule in 1779
Thomas Saint's Sewing Machine in 1790
Industrial Facilities
The centrepieces of Owen’sexperiment at New Lanarkwere his “Institute for theFormation of Character”finished in 1816, along withits companion building, the“School for Children”,finished a year later.
First iNFant's school in Britiain
Owen believed that every person had a right to aneducation and recreationand these buildings wereused for this purpose. UnderOwen's management,children who wouldpreviously have worked inthe mill were sent to schooland received structured full-time education
Mechanisation
Beginning of Mechanisation: Threshing Machine. 1770s.. This device typifies the early phases of mechanisation in agriculture.
It multiplies the number of flails and imitates by mechanical rotation the motion of the human arm.
The threshing machine came into practical use in lateeighteenth-century England, and was the first successfulinstrument of mechanised agriculture.
What are Gideon’s main pointson Springs of Mechanisation?
What his ‘Movement’ concept about?
Which are the highlights of Gideon’shistory of ‘Movement’?
Consequences
Technological
(1) Machines to do the work of hand tools (2) The use of steam and later of other kinds of power (3) The adoption of the factory system
Economic
1) Wider distribution of wealth (2) The decline of land as a source of wealth in theface of rising industrial production (3) Increase in international trade
Social
(1) Urban areas grew rapidly as rural populationsflocked to the cities for work.(2) Growth of cities and the development ofworking-class movements.(3) Women’s access to work.