Industrial Revolution

• Prior to the Industrial Age, most people were farmers and skilled workers who made products by hand in small towns.
• Jobs during this time included blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers.
• The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid growth using machines to make goods that arose in Great Brittain during the 1700s.
• The water frame, invented by Robert Arkwright, served to produce dozens of cotton threads simultaneously by using flowing water as a power source.
• The water frame resulted in faster production of cotton thread, lowered the cost of cotton production, and became a catalyst for Great Britain to become the most productive textile industry.
• Samuel Slater introduced textile manufacturing to the U.S.
• Eli Whitney introduced the idea of interchangeable parts used to make musket manufacturing easier, allowing for mass production.
• The Rhode Island system hired families and divided factory work into simple tasks.
• The Lowell system hired unmarried, young women and offered them housing in boardinghouses.
• In the Lowell system, workers were assigned to spin thread and weave, while also given breaks and leisure.
• In my opinion, the Lowell system was a more effective system, as it provided more than just a job for the employee, rather tended to its basic human needs.
• Through clean housing and accommodated leisure time, woman adopted a sense of autonomy and independence and countering the patriarchal roles society had originally placed them in.
• The Rhode Island system could result ineffective, as many disputes are prone to happen due to families working in the same factory.
• The Transportation Revolution was a period of growth in new means of transportation, bringing an increase in nationwide business and reduction of shipping costs, revolutionizing both the people's way of life and the led to the growth of the economy, as well as the development of the country.
• Workers formed trade unions to gain higher wages and better working conditions.
• Farming was changed by the Industrial Age to be faster, more effective, less costly, and produced high yield crops.
• Samuel F. B. Morse perfected the telegraph - a device sending information through wires.
• Through inventions like the steel plow and mechanical reapers, wheat was quickly harvested and sent to factories to be shipped or turned into other products.
• Factory work during the earliest years of the Industrial Age involved 12-14 hour work days, low wages, and competitive job.
• Workers staged strikes - refusing to work - in order for their concerns to be heard.
• Robert Fulton is the inventor of the steamboat.
• Both craftsman and factory workers formed trade unions.
• If a figure of authority abuses of somebody's son, a fight is likely to start between the son's father and that figure, as it is parental instinct to protect one's child.
• The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain.
• Samuel Slater brought the diffusion of the Industrial Revolution to the United States.
• The water frame replaced the hand spinning. This is a waterwheel, connected to an axel, connected to the factory to create hydropower. This was the first breakthrough in the Industrial Revolution. This lowered the cost and sped up the production.
• •The Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid growth using machines to make goods, arose in Great Britain in the mid-1700s.
• The first breakthrough in the Industrial Revolution was in how textiles, or cloth goods, were made.
• Richard Arkwright, an Englishman, invented a spinning machine in 1769 called the water frame, which replaced hand spinning.
• The water frame used flowing water as a source of power producing dozens of cotton threads at the same time and lowering the cost of cotton production and increased the speed of textile production
• Samuel Slater brought the secrets of textile mill manufacturing from Great Britain to the United States.
• The textile industry arose in the Northeast, introducing the Industrial Revolution to the United States.
• Eli Whitney developed the idea of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin.
• Interchangeable parts were first introduced in the area of gun manufacturing, where parts can be replaced and not thrown away. This affected mass production because factories did not have to produce all the parts, rather many factories made the parts and all of then went to be set up in an assembly line. One draw back is dependence due to a delay in transportation.
• Prior to the Industrial Age, most people were farmers and skilled workers who made products by hand in small towns.
• Jobs during the Industrial Age included blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers.
• The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid growth using machines to make goods that arose in Great Brittain during the 1700s.
• The Industrial Revolution arrived in the 1840-50s, eventually expanding differently than in Europe due to the grandness of the country and the availability of resources without the need for importation.
• The water frame - invented by Richard Arkwright - served to produce dozens of cotton threads simultaneously by using flowing water as a power source.
• The water frame resulted in faster production of cotton thread, lowered the cost of cotton production, and became a catalyst for Great Britain to become the most productive textile industry.