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The Industrial Revolution - Coggle Diagram
The Industrial Revolution
Industrial growth factors:
lowland of England and Scotland
rise in population
Rapidly rising
Cause of population explosion
Medical advances (Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine)
Better living condition
Improved farming method
Demand foods and goods
Provide extra workers
Great British Advantages
A favorable climate for new ideas
Royal Society (a world-famous club)
Lunar Society ( smaller club)
A good banking system
Making loans - important service
Encourage bussiness people
A favorable geography
Many harbors/ merchant ships/ overseas trade
Wealthy class
Political stability
No fighting
Encouragement of law to new investment
Abundant natural resources
Water power, coal, and iron ore
Changes in farming
the enclosure movement
renting fields to tenant farmers
Fencing the land
Jethro Tull (1721)
seed drill
crop rotation
Viscount Charles (Turnip Townshend)
Let land be fallow :green_cross:
Rotate crops :check:
Improved livestock
1700’s, Robert Bakewell
Raise larger sheep
Increase weight of sheep
Improve taste of mutton
Effects on population
Better livestock/ rising crop
Less hungry
Improvement of nutrition
the emclosure movement
Lost fields
Left Great Britain
Rise of industry in British :
A giant burst of inventiveness
The textile industry
Major trade goods of British
Raw wool and wool cloth
Other fabrics
Linen and cotton
spinners and weavers
Worked by hand
to speed up and greater profits
Invent cloth merchants
technology improvement in spinning and weaving
Six major inventions for cottn industry
1733, John Kay
Flying shuttle
1764, James Hargreaves
Spinning jenny
1769, Richard Arkwright
Water frame
1779, Samuel Crompton
Spinning mule
1785, Edmund Cartwright
Power loom
1793, Eli Witney
Cotton gin
Watt’s improvement of the steam engine
By steam engine no limit of factories’ location
Early steam engine (the Newcomen engine)
Slow
1765, James Watt
A mathematical instrument maker
Improved steam engine
Watt partnership with Matthew Boulton
Entrepreneurs
more information
industrization
progress of developing manufacturing