A REVOLUTION OF ENERGY
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• Third factor that triggers
Industrial Revolution
• Energy usually provided by
humans or animals
• First use of water wheels in
factories (1700)
• Also used coal for steam
engines
• 1712 inventor Newcomen
develops coal powered steam
engine
• James watt improves it in1769
Britain leads the revolutionary
field?
§ Large supplies of coal and Iron
§ Lots of workers from the farms
of the agricultural revolution
also the population boom
§ Technology as a part of the
I.R.(not cause)
§ Economic conditions increased
capital and demand
§ Stable government that
supported economic growth
§ Population explosion boosts
demand for goods.
EARLY
AGE OF IRON AND COAL
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Iron technology key to Industrial revolution
Needed for machines and steam engines
Needed coal for fuel
Abraham Darby began to use coal instead of
wood top smelt the iron (remove ore from
Iron- helped developed better quality
cheaper iron
Changes in the Textile Industry
Flying shuttle
• Britain largest industry
• Early systems were slow
(putting out system)
• Major invention john Kay
(Flying Shuttle)
• First factories use stream
and water to power
machines
• Workers and machines
produce a lot of goods
• 1733 – John Kay (British)
invented the flying shuttle
• Doubled the output of hand
weavers
1769, Richard Arkwright, Great Britain
1774 – James Hargreaves, Great Britain
1779, Samuel Crompton, Great Britain
1785, Edmund Cartwright, Great Britain
1793, Eli Whitney, United States of America
1717, Thomas Newcomen, Great Britain
1769, James Watt, Scotland
STEAM CHANGES
TRANSPORTATION
• PEOPLE NEEDED FASTER
WAYS TO MOVE GOODS
• Improved local transport
systems
• Invented steam locomotive,
helped to grow railroads
• By 1870, railroads crisscross
Europe
• Fulton uses Watt’s steam
engine to create steamboat
• Used to carry cargo and
passengers
1807, American
1. The invention of
machines to do the
work of hand tools
2. The use of steam,
and later other
kinds of power
3. The adoption of the
factory system and
mass production