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Beginning of Industrial Revolution
The INdustrial Revolution began in Great Britian around this time. The Industrial Revolution took place when machines and technology began to evolve and change the lives of people forever.
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Water-powered Silk Mill
John Lombe invented this and it is supposedly the first creation of the factory in Derby. The factory lead to the rise in city's population due to employment. Once again used for cotton spinning.
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Flying Shuttle
James Kay, who was a clockworker, invented this simple weaving machine. This improved the old hand loom big time. A worker would have to pull a cord of rope back and forth sending a small piece of wood across the wooden frame through threads to weave cloth. http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/IRbegins.html -
Spinning Jenny
This was invented by James Hargreaves. A spinning Jenny is a machine that allows an individual person to produce many spools of thread simultaneously. -
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Steam boat
Robert Fulton was the one to invent the first successful steam boat. By the midnineteenth century they were carrying freight across the Alantic. -
Famous book written
Adam Smith wrote a famous book called "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". He had wrote in it that "Good roads, cancals, and navigatable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighborhood town. They are upon that accounts the greatest of all improvements." This book was written by the first modern economist and has inspired a bunch today.
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Power Loom
Edmund Cartwright invented this wonderful thing. It changed weaving and clothes making forever. It wasn't used as widely until the 1800's but it did replace the flying shuttle. This loom was a lot faster.
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First Water-Powered Textile Mill
The first water-powered textile mill was created in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Slater was the one to build this. This machine spun cotton and helped with producing cotton made products.
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Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created this. It was used to clean cotton instead of cleaning it by hand.
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Wheel cypher
Thomas Jefferson invented the Wheel Cypher. This was a cypher system used for encrypticing messages and preventing code breaking.
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Luddite attack
A group of unemployed workers turned against the machines and began to destroy them because they could no longer compete with them. They were followers of Ned Ludd. This group of people grew horridly and the British had to take drastic measures to control it.
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Best route made
The best route our country had was made by crushed rocks and was called the National Road. This road was funded by the Federal Government and extended from Maryland to the Ohio River.
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Factory Acts
These laws were the first set against child labor. Child Labor was growing due to the increase in deman and machines. These laws were passed in England and said that children under 9 could not be put to work. It also said that children could NOT work at night and if they were under the age of 18 they couldn't work more than 12 hours at a time.
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Electric Telegraph
A guy named Samuel Morse invented the first electric telegraph. This allowed electrical pulses to travel long distances through metal wires in a sort of code. This became a source of communication.
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Vaccum Cleaner
Daniel Hess invented the Vaccuum cleaner which we still use today!
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Great Rail Road Strike
WAges were cut for people working on the railroads. This caused a strike to happen. It began in West Virgina and spread to 3 other states within 45 days before it was ended by federal troops.
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Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented this machine. It was used to clean cotton faster instead of by hand.
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html
