before rev

• An inventor is a person who makes new inventions (devices that perform some kind of function). The devices are mostly electrical or mechanical. Someone that invents new ideas or methods on how to do things may also be called an inventor. Inventors can receive a patent.
• 1. Inventions include the cotton gin and the steam engine
• started late 18th century
• factories were opening in cities which resulted in people moving so they could obtain employment
• entrepreneurship of people wanting more for themselves and family
• increase in populations led to farmers needing new work, then needing new resources
• agricultural practices included crop rotation and selective breeding
• the industrial revolution marked a period of development in the later half of the 18th century, and largely industrialised and urbanised rural and agrarian societies in europe and america
• Most people didn't travel very far and their towns were small