British industrial revolution 1

world history

  • Abraham Darby

    he used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron, or seperate iron from its ore
  • steamed engine powereed by coal

    thomas newcomen steamed engine powereed by coal to pump water out of mines
  • population

    population was 17000 people in th British Market town of Manchester
  • handmade tools

    most worked the land, using handmade tools
  • Bridgewater canal opened

    not only profited from tolls, but it cut in half the price of coal in Manchester
  • spinning jenny was invented

    spinning jenny, which spun many threads at the same time
  • Manchester population

    population little over doubled from 17000 to 40000 people
  • cotton gin

    eli whitney created to cotton gin. cotton gin is a machine that seperated the seed from the raw cotton
  • thomas Melthous

    he published AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
  • steamboat

    fulton created the first successful steamboat, called the Clermont
  • industrial riots

    first instances of industrail riots occurred in England
  • stockton and darlington railway

    rail way in england became the world's first steam railway to offer passengers and freight services.
  • Worlds first major railway

    first major rail way from liverpool to manchester opened in England
  • country villages turned it towns and cities

    country villagesw grown into industrail town and cities
  • Social democracy

    polititcal ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism instead ofa sudden violent overthrow of the system