The+Industrial+Revolution

Zachary Manlapid =The Industrial Revolution=

**Origins**
 * Changes in farming methods; increase of fed people
 * rise in population; excess labor
 * profits; central bank, flexible credit facilities, paper installments
 * entrepreneurs/merchants (early factory owners)
 * Important mineral resources; Coal/Iron Ore
 * Britain's small size led to quicker and easier transport
 * No internal customs
 * Government passed laws to protect private property; decline in governmental restrictions
 * Supply of Markets
 * ready outlet for manufactured goods
 * amount of exports increased four fold from 1660-1760
 * colonies were cheap labor production from abroad
 * Britain has highest standard of living in Europe, rapidly growing population

**Cotton Industry**
 * James Hargreaves- Spinning Jenny. Reduced yarn shortages in 1768
 * Richard Arkwright- Water Frame
 * Samuel Crompton- Spinning Mule (Spinning Jenny + Water Frame)
 * Edmund Cartwright- Power loom (1787) cloth production catches up to yarn
 * early power looms were inefficient
 * gradual replacement of hand-loom eavers by machines

Steam Engine

 * original intent was to transport water out of coal mines
 * allowed for spread of factories
 * Thomas Newcomen- (1712) created the steam pump, AKA atmospheric engine
 * James Watt- transformed Newcomen steam pump into the steam engine
 * 1782- developed the rotary engine (drive in machinery)
 * boost to the cotton industry

**Iron Industry**
 * Henry Cort- puddling; use of coke to burn away any impurities in pig iron to create stronger and higher quality iron
 * huge boost to the iron industry

**Transportation**
 * New roads and canals built (1760-1830)
 * invention of the steam engine allowed for trains to be built, making a demand for railroads
 * Richard Trevithick- pioneered the first steam powered locomotive in 1804
 * George Stephenson- built superior engines
 * Rocket- (1830) first locomotive used for public transport

Industrial Factories

 * minute and detailed regulations inside factories; fines for infractions
 * dirty and unsanitary working conditions, lack of ventilation
 * viewed children as free labor
 * dangerous and unprotected use of heavy machinery

Great Exhibition (1851)

 * it's purpose was to show off Britain's Industrial power to the world
 * held at the Crystal Palace
 * displayed wealth and the human domination over nature

Montagna, Joseph A."The Industrial Revolution." //Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute//. Yale University, n.d. Web. 25. April. 2011.
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