A REVOLUTION OF ENERGY ._ • 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 • • • • 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