The Enlightenment principles influenced the Industrial Revolution through the advancement of technology, and the widespread knowledge of how to make things more useful, resulting in
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First Steam Engine prototype
1712“Thomas Newcomen designed the prototype for the first modern steam engine” (History).One of the main reasons that started the industrial revolution. Before this people might have had ideas about tools, but really didn’t have any way to power them. -
New and improved steam engine
“James Watt began tinkering with one of Newcomen’s models. . . Watt later collaborated with Matthew Boulton to invent a steam engine with a rotary motion. . . that would allow steam power to spread across British industries, including flour, paper, and cotton mills, ironworks, distilleries, waterworks and canals” (History). Then after the first steam engine was invented, when the word got out other people looked at it and thought of ways that they could improve it. -
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British Textiles business
“But prior to the Industrial Revolution, the British textile business was a true “cottage industry,” with the work performed in small workshops or even homes by individual spinners, weavers and dyers” (History). Before the Industrial Revolution, it was pretty harsh trying to Mill and produce cotton textiles. People had to do these really difficult tasks, but with a hard task, you can imagine that they were trying to create an easier way to do it. -
Travel
“Before this time, people rarely traveled beyond their small villages. Rural people worked as subsistence farmers, meaning they grew crops to feed themselves and their families” (National Geographic). Before the Industrial Revolution, most people only stayed in their small villages not connecting with the outside world. Then When people were able to communicate those villages didn’t keep to themselves anymore and they started to learn ideas from other areas. -
Diverse jobs
“Most people in Europe worked either as farmers or artisans making hand-crafted goods. How people lived had not changed significantly since the Middle Ages” (National Geographic). With the peoples’ ideas and new ways of producing products more diverse jobs were created. This increased the idea that the world would become more Industrialized. -
Belgium big machine shops
“Two Englishmen, William and John Cockerill, brought the Industrial Revolution to Belgium by developing machine shops at Liège (c. 1807), and Belgium became the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economically. Like its British progenitor, the Belgian Industrial Revolution centered in iron, coal, and textiles” (Britannica). As the world got more advanced there always has to be leaders to bring the new technology to a country. -
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Need for long distance communication
“The latter part of the Industrial Revolution also saw key advances in communication methods, as people increasingly saw the need to communicate efficiently over long distances” (History). With people being able to communicate more and more ideas were able to spread more and more. With Ideas spreading quickly it led to more areas into the Industrial revolution. -
Commercial Telegraph
“British inventors William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patented the first commercial telegraphy system, even as Samuel Morse and other inventors worked on their own versions in the United States. Cooke and Wheatstone’s system would be used for railroad signaling, as the speed of the new trains had created a need for more sophisticated means of communication” (History). With the telegraph now running with most of the railroads, they could get information everywhere. -
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Work cited
History.com Editors. “Industrial Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/industrial-revolution.
“Industrial Revolution.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution. -
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National Geographic Society. “Industrialization, Labor, and Life.” National Geographic Society, 9 Dec. 2019, www.nationalgeographic.org/article/industrialization-labor-and-life/6th-grade/#:~:text=Before%20the%20Industrial%20Revolutions%2C%20most,the%20pace%20of%20work%20increased.