• Title = IR impact today • What do we see today that is a result of the Industri al Revoluti
Jan 12, 2016
• Title = IR impact today
• What do we see today that is a result of the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s & 1800s?
• Examine the Economic and Social Effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Europe
1800s = 2 storylines
• Starts in GB in 1750
• Will last 150 years and beyond
• Why is the Industrial Revolution a “Revolution?”
• PERSIAGM…which is affected?
• What do some (GB, USA, Germany) have that others (Poland, Italy, Spain) don’t?
Recipefor anIndustrialRevolution
Feudal Farming before 1700
• Innovations• Enclosure Farming
comes after the innovations are made
• Before 1700, you had this
Who wins?Who loses?
• Population in GB
•1700 = 5 million•1800 = 9 million
• Population in France•1715 = 18 million•1789 = 26 million
• Population in Europe•1715 = 120 million•1789 = 190 million
The Future of Farming?
• Chronicle the new inventions and resources needed to create an Industrialized country
• Analyze the reasons why GB is the birthplace of the IR
• Every country needs a certain combination of ingredients to industrialize
Recipefor anIndustrialRevolution
• Political• Economic• Religious• Social• Intellectual• Geographic• Military
• Human (slave)
• Animals• Water• Steam is
stronger…what invention do you need to make then?
• 1717• Thomas
Newcomen• Great Britain
• 1769• James
Watt• Scotland
• AKA…– Rural household industry
• 2 Main Participants:– entrepreneur and rural worker
Scenario 1 Entrepreneur hires
willing rural workers Entrepreneur provides:
Raw materials Capital(?)
Entrepreneur goes to + from the worker
Scenario 2 Worker is his/her own
boss
Entrepreneur = at first, but…
Cottage system has a flaw…SLOW
Demand increased faster than supply of cloth
Solution…FACTORY SYSTEM
Textile…AKA Clothing
What is needed for the textile factory to replace the cottage? (2 are in the pic)1. Steam
power2. Workers3. Inventions
• 1733 – John Kay (British)
• Made fabric 2x the speed of hand weavers
• 1769• Richard
Arkwright
• GB• Made
thread faster
• 1774• James Hargreaves
(GB)• Also made thread
faster
• 1779• Samuel
Crompton (GB)
• Combined Waterframe + Spinning Jenny
• Made thread even faster
• Who is ?
1785, Edmund Cartwright, Great Britain
• 1793• Eli Whitney• USA• Big US1 Topic
• GB is top cotton producer in the world
• 50% of GB’s foreign income comes from textiles
• Over 50% of world’s cotton cloth came from GB
• What needs to move around faster?
• What forms of transportation are available early on during the Industrial Revolution?
• What problems exist with
• Solution?
• Iron is needed for…– Railroads,
Bridges and Skyscrapers
• Darby Family make improvements– Coal instead of
wood…– Remove
impurities for stronger iron
• What results– Make more Iron
and faster– Iron cheaper and
used more…
• Grows in GB in 1820s
• Rest of Europe starts in 1840s
• Richard Trevithick (GB) makes first locomotive…1804
• George Stevenson’s (GB) “Rocket” in 1829 – Stevenson is leading
producer of locomotives in Western World
Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1830
• Robert Fulton (USA)– “Clermont”
in 1807
• http://izismile.com/2009/09/16/the_most_stupid_inventions_30_pics.html