Modernization

Question 1

Steam Engine

Answer 1

James Watt, Power source for the industrial revolution, and transformed transportation and machine automation & Locomotives

Shift from human / animal power -> Mechanical energy.

Issues: Air pollution, Child Labor, Colonial Expansion, Land Displacement

Question 2

Spinning Jenny

Answer 2

Allowed multiple spools of thread to be spun simultaneously, revolutionlizing textile production. Led to machine automation and britains dominance in cloth exports.

Led to job loss, factory exploitation of long working hours, and child labor.

Question 3

Lab Based Diamonds

Answer 3

CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition), replicate diamonds to an atomic level as they are produced in a controlled environment.

Can lead to market disruption, diamond localization, causing diamond prices to drop, leading to a global drop in its value, significantly impacting resource rich continents such as Africa who rely heavily on economic output from resource distribution