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Enlightenment and Scientific thinkers such as Francis Bacon helped change government, technological, and scientific ideas resulting in the Industrial Revolution and human advancements we have today; Without these ideas the world today would not have all the great inventions and luxuries that we take for granite. -
Industrial Revolution - The First Industrial Revolution | Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution/The-first-Industrial-Revolution. Accessed 28 Feb. 2022. -
“The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution.” Merchants and Mechanics, 25 Dec. 2017, https://merchantsandmechanics.com/2017/12/25/two-revolutions-and-an-enlightenment/. -
Perhaps inspired by the successes of the Scientific Revolution, Europeans began to reimagine commerce, society, governance, religion. Authority and tradition (Merchants and Mechanics). People started thinking more for themselves and not just believing what they had been told. This had a giant impact and would start many conflicts and bring up many great minds. -
Bacon believed that invention could “overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity” (Merchants and Merchants). Bacon was a great scientific thinker. His work and ideas were one of the foundations for new inventions of the Industrial Revolution. This quote screams the Industrial Revolution because the entire Revolution was to make things that improve human life. -
His work showed that the gains from scientific methods were potentially huge. (Merchants and Mechanics). Newtons served as a role model. His mathematical, data, and inductive reasoning was impactful. His laws of physics are still relevant today. -
By the late 1700s, many people could no longer earn their living in the countryside. Increasingly, people moved from farms and villages into bigger towns and cities to find work in factories (Britannica) -
Cities grew larger, but they were often dirty, crowded, and unhealthy. (Britannica). With all these advancements came problems as well. Pollution was on a rise and people got sick from dirty working conditions. Even children would be working. -
Two Englishmen, William and John Cockerill, brought the Industrial Revolution to Belgium by developing machine shops at Liège (c. 1807) (Britannica). This shows that people were starting to invent and have ideas. These ideas then would turn into inventions that would change the world. -
While Britain was establishing its industrial leadership, France was immersed in its Revolution, and the uncertain political situation discouraged large investments in industrial innovations (Britannica). France didn't start Industrailizing because they were in a Revolution. Then after in 1848, France had become a great Industrial power. It still lacked behind the British power though, even with Frances's Second Empire. -
Machines greatly increased production. This meant that products were cheaper to make and also cheaper to buy. Many factory owners became rich (Britannica). Capitalism is born. This helped people at the time get things cheaper. Life got easier which was one of Francis Bacon’s philosophies. Well, life for a factory worker may have sucked but for others, it was better with the new products and availability. -
The abolition of slavery involved the termination of a property right, namely the right of one human to own another human. (Merchants and Mechanics). Slavery went against John Locke's theory of three basic human rights "life, liberty, and property." The slaves had no life, liberty, or property and had no chance at even gaining those. -
industrial power Germany, for example, despite vast resources of coal and iron, did not begin its industrial expansion until after national unity was achieved in 1870. (Britannica) Germany just like France had to wait and solve their problems before Industrailizing. -
The eastern European countries were behind early in the 20th century. It was not until the five-year plans that the Soviet Union became a major industrial power (Britannica). Russia has always been behind in history when it comes to new things. Even before the Bolshevik Revolution one of Russia’s greatest Tsars, Peter the Great, mission was to westernize Russia. Now today Russia is one of the most advanced countries thanks to kicking Tsar Nicholas the II out.
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