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Beginning of Industrial Revolution
Britian first started the industiual revolution around 1750. This was the first beginnig of cities and factories. people began to move from their small country homes into the city to make more money. these factories were ran by man or horsepower, not by coal and steam in the 1800's. -
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The Industrial Revolution
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Turnpikes
Increasing numbers of main roads were turnpiked from the 1756 to the extent that almost every main road in England and Wales was the responsibility of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and John Macadam. -
"City Life"
City life was becoming more and more common for people. this was a time where the factories and they city life were starting to slowly become more of a lifestyle than the farming life. New inventions for machinery were changing year by year. -
Goverment Changes
in 1770 the bitish goverment chnaged from a mostly agricultural to mostly industrial country. there was not just one invention that changed that was key to the chnage, just multiple fields coming together to. while the city life and factories were doing well, anyone who still lived a farming life style had a hard time changing to the new way things were. -
Further Develpoment of the Engine
Watt Engine had created an separate condenser, making the engine much more efficient. This was the start of more engine usage durring this time. Later on, James Watt furner developed the engine, but that would have never happened had Watt not first the engine. -
Trade Growth
Great Britain had grown from a trade of 5 million pounds of trade to 20 million pounds of trade and it was only growing faster. at this time Britian has also discovered most of its raw materials and has begun to trade tose to other countires. -
Cast Iron
Cast iron was a great invention in 1678 when because it was a great building material to make bridges and structures. In 1778 the iron bridge was made by Abraham Darby, and this made it a lot easier to move and transport goods. -
Steam Engines
in 1783 the more economical Watt steam engine had been fully developed into a double-acting rotative type, which meant that it could be used to directly drive the rotary machinery of a factory or mill. Both of Watt's basic engine types were commercially very successful! -
Sowing of trading
from 1785, imports decreased because of the new iron making technology, and Britain became an exporter of bar iron as well as manufactured wrought iron consumer goods. this made it harder to trade because Britian made all there own metals. -
Electric battery
Count Alessandro Volta,an Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity created the electric battery. His created what he called a voltic pipe that created a constant flow of electricity. In his honor the volt was named after him. His work created many other electric inventions and technology that could be transported and supply energy throughout objects in a transportable manner. -
Preserving food
Food needed to be transported longer distance and stay fresh longer. This is when Francois Appent invented food starilization which removed the air from foods. Canned food was created and the first canned food factory in Fance. This invention let products be distributed across large distances and trade easier. This way, a fewer amount of farmers were needed for an area and large scale industry for farming was born. Also, farmers could now do other jobs since farming was not needed as much. -
Electric motor
The first electric motor was created by Micheal Faraday in 1821, he was the first to figure out how to turn electric energy into machanical energy.Electric motors are found in industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives. These daily objects called revolutions and changed our way of living in everyday lives. Lifestyles were changed from agricultural based to jobs more technically involved, jobs creating machines and tools. -
Electromagnet
The electromagnet was invented by william sturgeon in 1823. The magnetic flow of the electromagnet is produced by electic current flowing through the magenet. The speciality of the electromagnet is that it can be controlled on power and turned off. This invention lead to major economical effect in the future technology wise as it effected motors, jenerators, hard disks, speakers, MRI scans and many other technological advances. This invention lead to many bussinesses and jobs involving tech. -
Railroad Progress
In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington railroad carried the first commerical freight train in history. By 1830 this had sparked a virtual mania for building railroads in the United States and Europe. In the 1800s there was incredible growth for railroads and by 1830 Great Britian had 95 miles of track. -
Industrialization spreads to all over
After 1830, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany began to copy the english industrialization process by introducing machinery into the production process. However the European industrialization processes were different from the British in many ways. The governments built railroad systems, which was the start to the industrial revolution. -
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical reaper used to mechanize farming. It was patented in 1834, and it revolutionized harvesting, which made it quicker and easier. He was an inventor of many machines. McCormick's inventions were very useful and helpful for people in farming. -
Water Transportation
By 1840, the great success of New York's "Erie Canal" had set off a frenzy that, along with the development of the steamboat, it created a complete national water transportation network. The canal, a 364 mile man-made waterway which begun in 1817, connected the eastern seaboard and the old Northwest.
