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What do you call large farm feilds
Enclosures
Jethro tull?
Seed drill
Robert Bakewell?
Breeding
best invention of scientific farmers, allows all kinds of plants to be planted
crop rotation
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?
had extensive natural resources and a booming economy!
Needed for Industrialization
Land Capital Laborer
Textile Industry
first British Industry to be industrialized.
Helped weavers produce wider cloth and enabled weavers to produce twice as much as what they weave at that time.
FLYING SHUTTLE (1733) : JOHN KAY
increased number of threads that could be spun at a time, hence increasing production and decreasing work time
SPINNING JENNY (1764): JAMES HARGEAVES
SPINNING MULE : SAMUEL CROMPTON
Bunch of fibers is pulled and twisted, then wrapped into a spindle
Produced thread of better quality compared to manually spun ones.
COTTON GIN : ELI WHITNEY
Sped up the process of removing or separating the seeds from cotton fibers
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
JOHN MCADAM
He Invented the early railway locomotive and he called it ‘The rocket”.
GEORGE STEPHENSON
Consist of a cluster of stan-alone industrial facilities all operating at the same time
Industrial Cities
Between 1800 and 1850, number of European cities had more than 100,000 inhabitants rose from 22 to 47.
URBANIZATION
Living Conditions
They did not have
Development Plans
Sanitary Codes
Building Codes
They also did not have
Adequate Housing
Education
Police Protection
first countries in mainland Europe to follow British success.
BELGIUM
-iron
-coal
Focused heavily on textiles
SWITZERLAND
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
GERMANY
Inventors worked at making railroad travel more comfortable
Revolutionized agriculture, manufacturing and communications
The first cotton mill was established by Samuel Slater
THE UNITED STATES
Alexander Graham Bell
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
Thomas Edison
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
First radio
Guglielmo Macroni
