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Why Great Britain to Start With?
http://goo.gl/czwzO Great Britain was the first country to fully industrialize. The reason is, is that they had many willing workers. Whether you were 12 or 52 they would take you in to work. Britain also contained large amounts of coal and iron. They had many minors working which helped businesses work fast and produce more. Britain also had tons and tons of entrepreneurs with many great ideas and inventions. -
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Where the Industrial Revolution began
Industrial Revolution Video
Industrial Revolution- A changing point in urbanization and the creation of new technology in history.
The industrial Revolution started in Great Britian. The industrial revolution was the start of growth in the machinery industry. A lot of new technology was built in this period. -
The Spinning Frame
http://goo.gl/L9Vo2http://goo.gl/dy6sF The spinning frame was invented by Richard Arkwright making the textile industry produce more. The spinning frame's job was to produce stronger threads of yarn made of cotton. The spinning frame was an improvement from previous ways to make threads but was later replaced by the cotton gin. The spinning frame was constantly watched by workers thoughout the day until closing time. -
James Watt
http://goo.gl/Zevr4http://goo.gl/omynj James Watt improved on the Newcome steam engine. The new and improved steam engine helped reduce the overall heat in the engine which allowed it to run a lot longer than normal. The reason it was very useful is because steam engines were used for transportation like boats. With the more efficient steam engine Watt created they were able to export goods to places further away. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
[ Cotton Gin Video](http://goo.gl/jNxzN)<a href='http://goo.gl/PEBNJ' > After Britain industrialized the moved on to America. After capturing all the 13 colonies a man by the name of Eli Whitney was born on December 8th, 1765. He came out with the biggest invention at the time, the cotton gin. The cotton gin helped speed up production of all cotton items twice as fast as before. -
Interchangeable Parts
http://goo.gl/h5gN4 During this time war was going on between Britain and the 13 colonies. Eli Whitney stayed on the colonies side creating many helpful inventions. He created interchangeable parts to the army's muskets. Which helped a lot because their guns often broke down. While Britain's soldiers were stuck in the middle of gun fire the colonies soldiers were changing parts and firing back faster than Britain. Helping the U.S dominate the war. -
Robert Fulton
http://goo.gl/yB4UJ Robert Fulton had taken James Watt's steam engine and decided that he'd make more out of it. Fulton decided that he would creat the steamboat that carried export and import goods. The boat made it's first run in the Hudson River in New York for a total of 150 miles taking about 30 hours including a stop. The boat was called the Clermont but was not the first steamboat built. Yet it was the first boat affordable enough for passangers. -
George Stephenson
http://goo.gl/Col3D George Stephenson expanded off of James Watt's steam engine as well and created the steam powered train. The new train allowed them to use less coal and lowering prices. With the continuous upgrades on the engine the train was able to travel longer than steam boats. But also creating a lot of pollution in the atmosphere as long as the steamboat. -
Samuel Morse
http://goo.gl/z5lydhttp://goo.gl/PrPDk Later on in the industrial revolution to the new country of America, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be submitted through wire. He created the telegraph which could send messages through wire then onto a paper also creating the morse code, The morse code was the system used to know what the message said from the telegraph. The telegraph required many long lines to another telegraph to transmit the message being sent. -
Thomas Edison
<a href='http://goo.gl/Jz6M8' > Thomas Edison is probably the main reason that most of our current day and past time technology was made. He created the lightbulb which not only let people see at night, but let them see new inventions they could create. He used many filaments to see how it would make the lightbulb light up. Once finding the right filament he'd reuse it creating light.
