India Industrial Revolution

By airby8216

  • Cotton Textile Markets

    India is documented to have dominated the world's cotton textile markets.

  • Market Threat

    India Textile Industry faced a Market threat

  • Telegraph

    Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. This allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire.

  • Safety Break

    Elisha Otis invents a safety break to prevent them from falling if a cable breaks .. This made people feel more confident.

  • Manchester

    Population: 108,000
    Productivity: the issue of why productivity growth during the British industrial Revolution was slow despite arrival of famous inventions. The results show that steam had a relatively small and long-delayed impact on productivity growth when benchmarked against later technologies .
    Average Life Span: Children were working full time in coal mines. Landowners were enclosing common village land, people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work

  • Manchester Continued

    Pollution: 1851 such expansion created a nasty urban environment in which living conditions were appalling. Water supply, sewage disposal , housing were high on a long list of problems.

  • Lowell

    Population: nevertheless, with the shift from hand-made to machine-made products a new era of human experience began where increased productivity created a much higher standard of living than had ever been known in the pre-industrial world.
    Average Life Span: average workers were young women ages to 15 to 30 . They were worked in textile corporations
    Pollution: they never had bad pollution during the industrial Revolution.

  • Vaccine

    A Chemist named Louis pastor believed that germs caused disease.. He invented vaccines that help prevent many common diseases

  • London

    Population: 760,000
    Productivity: The cotton gin increased productivity of removing seed from cotton by a factor of 50. Again inventions were the growth of productivity.
    Average Life Span: while the industrial Revolution ultimately led to big increases in wealth, progress was unsteady. For much of the period the average person was not reaping the benefits of economic change. Their weren't as high.
    Pollution: London had dying fish in River Thames and coal was the main source of smog.