Industrial Revolution

• industrial revolution- related to the social and economic changes that led to the change from an agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial society
• Great Britain in the middle of the 18th until the middle of the 19th century
• Why in great britain? because it had a lot of coal and iron that were used to power machinery and factories
• Cotton gin- Eli Whitney
• factors:


  population growth

  enclosure movement

  agricultural revolution

  inventions

  transportation and communication systems
• Flying Shuttle- John Kay 1738 for faster weaving of fabrics
• Spinning Jenny- Jeans Hargreaves, for yarn making
• Spinning Frame/ Water frame- Richard Arkwright 1769
• Spinning mule- Samuel Crompton 1779, mixture of spinning jenny and water frame. From thinning of yarn
• Power loom- Edmund Cartwright 1785, faster weaving
• Cotton Gin- Eli Whitney 1792
• First Steam engine by Thomas Savery used for mining
• Steam Engine Thomas Newcomen 1705
• Steam engine with practical use- James watt

  People were able to invent steam-powered vehicles with this
• Dynamo- Michael Faraday 1831
• Telegraph- Samuel Morse 1844
• Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell 1870
• Airplane- Orville and Wilbur Wright 1870
• Car- Henry Ford 1909