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The Land Enclosure Movement
The Industrial Revolution truly first began because of the Dutch. Dutch farmers had created new and better ways to farm, which then the British adopted and added on to. Rich landowners would use enclosure to get parts of land that they shared with peasants. As more landowners were buying land, the lower class was being push out of their rural areas. Former peasant farmers had no option but to move to towns and cities in hopes to find a new job for income. -
England Starts The Industrial Revolution
The I.R. started in England because they had the money, resources, and knowledge. England has many rivers running through the country, which made it perfect for factories and boats. Not only that but Britain had a large supply of coal and iron, which was the main materials of the industrial revolution. England also had lots of money from the slave trade to invest in machines and factories. Lastly, England was a hot spot for many aspiring scientists and inventors who were hoping to make money. -
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The Industrial Revolution
A time where technology like machines were first introduced to society. The human population first met machines like trains, steam engines, sewers, and so many more inventions that are used in our modern world today. These technologies showed a whole new way of traveling, trading, and living. -
Darby Changes The Way Of Iron
Coal has a very important part to play in the creation of machines that are used even in today's world. Coal was the main source of fuel to produce iron to build steam engines. Abraham Darby was the first to use coal- instead of charcoal- to smelt iron. This lead him to be able to create cheap and higher-quality iron that would be used for steam engines. This new experiment from Abraham Darby runs through his family, and all the way to Abraham Darby the 3rd, who built the first iron bridge. -
New Technology Changes Energy Sources
In the early 1700s, people began to discover new sources of engery that weren't wood. One of the biggest discoveries were made by James Watt, a Scottish engineer who rebooted Thomas Newcomen's steam engine that used coal to pump water out of mines. After years of studying and working, Watt made an engine that not only changed the way machinery was operated, but he also made an engine that would power some of the first steamboats and locomotives. -
Thomas Newcomen Creates The Steam Engine
Newcomen is the first person to create a "modern" steam engine. At first, Newcomen's engine was at first used to pump water out of mines, which made life easier for many workers in the mines and their bosses. Not only that but Newcmen's steam engine changed the way people looked at machines forever by opening the door for new and better engines with more uses. -
Mistreatment Of The new Working Class
During the Industrial revolution, farmers had transformed into urban living workers who got their pay from their bosses, like in modern world. But back then, factory owners and CEO's could get away with mistreating their workers and having them work (and live) in unsafe places while paying them little to no money. This lead to the spread of many diseases and death from these new creations and inventions. Some Factories even had children of young ages working in these small and dangerous spaces. -
Factory Acts In England
The Factory act in England changed the way children would be allowed to work in businesses and factories. These acts made it so that children have to be nine or older to work in factories. It also shortened the hours a child may work and prohibited children from working at night. This improved the work life of children, who before were forced to work as much as the adults and for less pay. -
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Views
Both of these men saw the true poverty that the working class of the industrial revolution were experiencing. Karl Marx believed that it was wrong that in capitalism, only a few could be rich and the rest of the people who worked were poor. Marx wrote a book about his own idea of communism, and it became world-known and used til this day. Friedrich Engels saw in first person what the poorer classes were going through. Engels does write what he sees and explains it as dark, miserable, and filthy.
