The Industrial Revolution - coachmurray

The Industrial Revolution Objective: Describe and explain the Industrial Revolution’s growth of INDUSTRY. Warm-up: What do you think the Industrial Revolution is?

The Industrial Revolution saw the growth of:

I.N.D.U.S.T.R.Y.

I • Increase in population, education, and the middle class!

N • New advancements in science: • Tenner: smallpox vaccine • Pasteur: discovered bacteria

D • Dangerous working conditions

U • Urbanization- growth of cities

S • Standard of living increases • Standard of living is how much you can buy

T • Transportation improved • James Watt- steam engine (trains)

R • Rise of pollution • air and water

Y • Yes, steel production improved • Bessemer- made steel cheaper

Focus • Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain? • How did industrialization cause a revolution in the production of textiles? • How did steam power the Industrial Revolution?

• Where did industrialization spread beyond Great Britain?

Britain’s Big Advantage The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. • Had essential elements for economic success • Factors of production • Land • Labor

• Capital

A Revolution in Great Britain Factors for Success • Exploration and colonialism • Seapower

Agricultural Factors • Research and development on farms

• Political stability

• Jethro Tull, seed drill

• Government support

• Improved livestock breeding

• Growth of private investment

• Better varieties of food crops – Increased food supply – Population grew

• Enclosure movement

Textile Industry • Beginning of Industrial Revolution • Weaving was a cottage industry • Labor performed at home • Industrialization transformed this • New Way of Making Cloth • • • • • •

Fabric made of wool or cotton Supply of fibers increased in the 1700s Slave labor in America Invention of cotton gin Invention of spinning jenny Invention of flying shuttle

Cloth-making in Factories • Cottages too small • Factory invented • Power for factories? • Water frame for water power

• Output increased 8x by 1770

Industrialization Spreads America • British restrictions • Hamilton, 1791 • Samuel Slater –Water frame

–Slater’s Mill

• Lowell’s Mill

Europe • Belgium, 1807

• France, 1815 • Germany, 1850 – Railroads – Treaties

Industry in Asia Eventually, industry spread to Asia. • Japan first in 1868 • Meiji government • The 1900s—industrialization for • China

• India • Russia

Industrial Revolutionaries • • • • • • • • • • •

Guglielmo Marconi Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Frank Lloyd Wright Louis H. Sullivan Rudolf Diesel Louis Pasteur Wright Brothers Henry Ford Marie and Pierre Curie Dmitri Mendeleev

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Elias Howe / Issac Singer Cyrus McCormick George Eastman Charles Goodyear Nikola Tesla George Westinghouse Dr. Richard Gatling James Watt Eli Whitney Samuel F. B. Morse Robert Fulton