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1
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What do you call large farm feilds

A

Enclosures

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2
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Jethro tull?

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Seed drill

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3
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Robert Bakewell?

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Breeding

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4
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best invention of scientific farmers, allows all kinds of plants to be planted

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crop rotation

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5
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Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?

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had extensive natural resources and a booming economy!

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6
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Needed for Industrialization

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Land Capital Laborer

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7
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Textile Industry

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first British Industry to be industrialized.

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8
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Helped weavers produce wider cloth and enabled weavers to produce twice as much as what they weave at that time.

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FLYING SHUTTLE (1733) : JOHN KAY

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9
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increased number of threads that could be spun at a time, hence increasing production and decreasing work time

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SPINNING JENNY (1764): JAMES HARGEAVES

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10
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SPINNING MULE : SAMUEL CROMPTON

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Bunch of fibers is pulled and twisted, then wrapped into a spindle
Produced thread of better quality compared to manually spun ones.

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11
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COTTON GIN : ELI WHITNEY

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Sped up the process of removing or separating the seeds from cotton fibers

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12
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introduced the design of roads with layers of crushed compacted stoned stopped with a smooth surface. Basically, equipped road beds with a later of large stones for drainage

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JOHN MCADAM

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13
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He Invented the early railway locomotive and he called it ‘The rocket”.

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GEORGE STEPHENSON

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14
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Consist of a cluster of stan-alone industrial facilities all operating at the same time

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Industrial Cities

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15
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Between 1800 and 1850, number of European cities had more than 100,000 inhabitants rose from 22 to 47.

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URBANIZATION

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16
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Living Conditions

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They did not have
Development Plans
Sanitary Codes
Building Codes

They also did not have
Adequate Housing
Education
Police Protection

17
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first countries in mainland Europe to follow British success.

A

BELGIUM
-iron
-coal

18
Q

Focused heavily on textiles

A

SWITZERLAND

19
Q

The Ruhr Valley in 1835 was among the first places for industrialization to start
They began to copy British models and importing British equipment and engineers

A

GERMANY

20
Q

Inventors worked at making railroad travel more comfortable
Revolutionized agriculture, manufacturing and communications
The first cotton mill was established by Samuel Slater

A

THE UNITED STATES

21
Q

Alexander Graham Bell

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Metal detector
Audiometer → used to detect hearing problems
Photophone → transmits speech in a beam of light
Graphophone → improved version of photophone that could record and play back sound

22
Q

Thomas Edison

A

Carbon transmitter: It is a device used to improve telephones by increasing the volume and clarity of voices.
Phonograph: It records sound as indentations on a sheet of paraffin-coated paper.

Other inventions:
Light bulb
Movie camera and viewer
Alkaline storage battery

23
Q

First radio

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Guglielmo Macroni