The Industrial Revolution
Objective: Describe and explain the
Industrial Revolution’s growth of INDUSTRY.
Warm-up: What do you think the Industrial
Revolution is?
The Industrial Revolution saw the
growth of:
I.N.D.U.S.T.R.Y.
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• Increase in population,
education, and the middle
class!
N
• New advancements in science:
• Tenner: smallpox vaccine
• Pasteur: discovered bacteria
D
• Dangerous working conditions
U
• Urbanization- growth of cities
S
• Standard of living
increases
• Standard of living is how
much you can buy
T
• Transportation improved
• James Watt- steam engine
(trains)
R
• Rise of pollution
• air and water
Y
• Yes, steel production
improved
• Bessemer- made steel
cheaper
Focus
• Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in
Great Britain?
• How did industrialization cause a revolution in
the production of textiles?
• How did steam power the Industrial
Revolution?
• Where did industrialization spread beyond
Great Britain?
Britain’s Big Advantage
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain.
• Had essential elements for economic success
• Factors of production
• Land
• Labor
• Capital
A Revolution in Great Britain
Factors for Success
• Exploration and colonialism
• Seapower
Agricultural Factors
• Research and development on
farms
• Political stability
• Jethro Tull, seed drill
• Government support
• Improved livestock breeding
• Growth of private investment
• Better varieties of food crops
– Increased food supply
– Population grew
• Enclosure movement
Textile Industry
• Beginning of Industrial Revolution
• Weaving was a cottage industry
• Labor performed at home
• Industrialization transformed this
• New Way of Making Cloth
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Fabric made of wool or cotton
Supply of fibers increased in the 1700s
Slave labor in America
Invention of cotton gin
Invention of spinning jenny
Invention of flying shuttle
Cloth-making in Factories
• Cottages too small
• Factory invented
• Power for factories?
• Water frame for water power
• Output increased 8x by 1770
Industrialization Spreads
America
• British restrictions
• Hamilton, 1791
• Samuel Slater
–Water frame
–Slater’s Mill
• Lowell’s Mill
Europe
• Belgium, 1807
• France, 1815
• Germany, 1850
– Railroads
– Treaties
Industry in Asia
Eventually, industry spread to Asia.
• Japan first in 1868
• Meiji government
• The 1900s—industrialization for
• China
• India
• Russia
Industrial Revolutionaries
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Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis H. Sullivan
Rudolf Diesel
Louis Pasteur
Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Marie and Pierre Curie
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Elias Howe / Issac Singer
Cyrus McCormick
George Eastman
Charles Goodyear
Nikola Tesla
George Westinghouse
Dr. Richard Gatling
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Samuel F. B. Morse
Robert Fulton