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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SECTION 1
- transfromation of Great Britain from a largely agrarian society to one dominated by industry
- the Industrial Revolution involved some of the most profund changes in human society in history
- changes that took place in Great Britain during the period from 1730 to 1850
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TRANSPORTATION
- Steam engine used as a power source
- The machine was heavy so there were unsolved problems, like the transportation one
- First ways of transport were developed in France and USA. They invented the steam engines like Robert Fulton in 1807, when he invented the steam ship
- Some british inventors solved this problem by placing a steam engine within a carriage - type vehicle to transport people and goods
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IRON AND STEEL
- timber supply had been decimated, so iron and steel manufactures were forced to look elsewhere for a fuel to use in treating iron ones
- they found COAL (it was cheaper than charcoal and easier to produce)
- supply of coal and iron ore
- Conversion of iron and steel from charcoal to coke = technical problems
-- use of coke in the smelting of iron ores
- the invention of the steam engine in 1763 (James Watt) solved this problem
- 18h Century new approach to iron and steal production = dramatic effects on population and industrial patterns in Great Britain
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TEXTILE INDUSTRY
1730s inventors developed machines
- John Kay (flying shuttle)
- James Hargreaves (spinning Jenny)
- Richard Arkwright (water frame)
- Samuel Crompton (spinning mule)
- Edmund Cartwright (power loom)
- Eli Whitney (cotton gin)
- Elias Howe (machine that allowed to sew faster than five women sewing by hand)
- development of new technology in the textile industry had a ripple effect on society
- took place in private homes (they produced clothes by hand)
- cloth and clothing became more available (lower prices and more demand)
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