Industrial Revolution

By vawnevan

  • Abraham Darby used coal to smelt iron

  • Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine powered by coal

    The steam engine was used to pump water out of mines.

  • The Bridgewater Canal was open

    The canal cut the price of coal in Manchester in half.

  • James Watt began making the steam engine more effiecient

    http://www.explainthatstuff.com/steamengines.html
  • James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny

    It could spin many threads at once

  • Richard Arkwright invented the waterframe

    The waterframe was a spinning machine powered by water

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

    The cotton gin separated the seeds from the raw cotton which allowed cotton production to increase

  • Thomas Malthus published "An Essay on the Principle of Population"

    He states that poverty is unavoidable, because population increased faster than the food supply

  • Factory Acts were passed

    The acts reduced a child's workday
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    Industrial riots occurred in England

    Luddites resisted the machines that were costing them their jobs
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    20,000 people visit New Lanark to study Robert Owen's reforms

  • World's first rail line

    It went from Liverpool to Manchester
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    Teams of inspectors ensures factories and mines obeyed Factory Acts

  • Marx and Engels wrote "The Communist Manuscript"

    Marx predicted a struggle between social classes that would lead to a classless society.

  • Rail lines are all over Britain, Europe, and North America