The Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain in 1750-1850
• The majority of Englishmen shifted from village life to urban living during the Industrial Revolution
• Two types of industries during the Industrial Revolution were agriculture, transportation, and communication
• Major developments in the Industrial Revolution included advancements in agriculture, transportation, and communication
• Agriculture:

  • Machines were used to improve food production, leading to increased supplies and population growth
  • Jethro Tull invented the seed drill that planted in straight rows
  • John Kay invented the "Flying Shuttle"
  • James Hargreaves invented the "Spinning Jenny" that spun several threads at once
  • Richard Arkwright invented the "Water Frame" that could hold 100 spindles with the use of water
• Transportation:

  • James Watt invented the modern steam engine
  • George Stephenson developed Watt's steam engine into a locomotive engine for present-day trains
  • Robert Fulton developed the Clermont, a paddle-wheeled steamship
  • Henry Ford used the assembly line technique for mass production of automobiles
  • Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane
• Communication:

  • Samuel Finley Breese Morse invented the telegraph and the Morse Code system
  • Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone
• Life in urban industrialized cities:

  • Conditions in factories included dangerous machinery, dirty workplace, monotonous routine, and cramped spaces
  • Abuse of workers' welfare led to young women in textile mills dying at an average age of 26 due to inhaling cotton dust and working long hours in unventilated rooms lit by oil lamps
• Child abuse was prevalent in the form of newsies, miners, and factory workers
• The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain in 1750-1850.
• The term Industrial Revolution refers to the social and economic changes that led to the transition from an agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial one. The shift from Rural to Urban life and people began to use machines for production. 
• The Industrial Revolution brought some good and bad effects. The good one is the era of advancement and utilizing machinery for production in economic growth. The bad side of it is the social inequality it brought, abuses in human and natural resources.