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Industrial Revolution
The period when Britain become an important country modernly with news machines, inventions, news socials conditions, and it's not one revolution but mainy revolutions. -
Spinning Jenny
Invented by James Hargreaves, this machine can produce multiple spools of thread simultaneously, for workers it's more easy but she replace them because she didn't absent and she doesn't need a salary. -
A View of the Iron Bridge
Painted by William Williams, this painting symbolize a new time for the artist, like the smoke who symbolize the industrialization, or the bridge was build with iron, a new material. This paint was a middle between the past and the future with news technologies. -
Sir Titus Salt
He was a businessman and a rich landowner and he invented cloth in alpaca, but he was very worried by the atmosheric pollution, so create a machine to stop her and create a town Saltaire for workers he's a visionary. -
The end of slavery
Britain abolished slavery in all countries they were the influence of them but consequencies are destroye many of the lives of millions of African people, and it impoverished Africa for generations. -
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Socials revolutions
Towns and cities were breeding ground for diseases, and conditions of life expectancy was around 30-33 yo in urban areas until 1850. And it was 40-43 yo in the countryside. All of this is the average height of British workers fell in the first half of the 19th century due to poor nutrition.