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Rise of industry from ______-_____

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1500 A.D.-1800 A.D.

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1543

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Nicholas Copernicus publishes book explaining idea that universe heliocentric

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1733

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John Kay invents flying shuttle

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1769

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James Watt perfects steam engine

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1847

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Samuel Colt develops assembly line

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1879

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Thomas Edison develops electric light

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By 1700s …

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people in western world had new ideas about science

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1400s

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Scientific Revolution

  • scientists started breaking away from old ideas
  • changes in scientific thinking
  • using scientific method to form and test own hypotheses
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Nicholas Copernicus was one of first …

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using scientific method

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Polish Astronomer studying what

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  • Copernicus

- motion of planets

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Copernicus proved …

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  • Ptolemy was wrong

- Earth not centre of universe

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Italian astronomer

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  • Galileo Galilei
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Accomplishments of Galileo

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  • telescope invention
  • moons surface not smooth with craters and mountains from their shadows
  • Milky Way hold vast number of stars
  • sun rotates on axis
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Person strongly criticized by R.C. Church about what

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  • Galileo Galilei

- Earth revolves around sun

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Whose ideas spread through Europe

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Galileo Galilei

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1642

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  • Galileo Galilei dies

- Sir Isaac Newton born in England

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Newton explained …

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theory of gravitation and how objects move through space

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Theory of gravitation led to …

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technology for today’s rockets and space satellites

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Changes in science =

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developments in farming

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Agricultural Revolution around

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1700s

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Enclosure

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system of land division used in GB

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What did landowners do to small strips of land

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combined them into large areas closed by fences, hedges, ditches

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Landowners made more money with

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Enclosures

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Greater profits on enclosures because

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  • whole areas grow same crop
  • larger harvests
  • fewer workers
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Workers on enclosures called

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Tenant farmers

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Two choices for tenant farmers

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  • stay on as paid workers

- look elsewhere for job

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Tenant farmers became …

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Industrial workers

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Benefits of Agricultural Revolution

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  • new ways of growing crops and breeding animals
  • greater pop of food
  • better health longer lifespans
  • pop increased
  • demand for manufactured goods grew
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Industrial Rev period

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1700s - 1850s

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Industrial rev began in …

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Textile industry

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Textile

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Woven cloth

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1660s and early 1700s

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cloth made by domestic system

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Domestic system

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  • manufacturing done in workers cottages

- fams worked together

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Merchants role in domestic system

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  • went from cottage to cottage
  • brought workers raw wool an cotton
  • picked up finished product to sell
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Workers used what in domestic system

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  • hand-powered spinning wheels and looms
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Domestic system couldn’t …

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  • meet strong growing demand for cloth
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Flying shuttle

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weaving device that carries thread quickly back and forth across pice being woven

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Problem with flying shuttle

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spinners couldn’t keep up with weavers

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Factory system

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Workers and machines in one place to make goods

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Cotton gin

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Cotton-cleaning machine

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Spinning Jenny

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Number of shingles fastened to single wheel

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Interchangeable parts

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Certain part of product same size and shape as the same part of another product

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Automation

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Process in which machines instead of people do much of labour

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Assembly line

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Each worker adds a part to product and passes it on to next worker, who also adds part, until the entire product has been completed

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Open-hearth process

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Special kind of furnace used to make steel

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Macadam road

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Road made of layers of crushed rock

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Trade unions

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Worker’s associations

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Immigrants

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People who settle permanently in a different country

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Internal combustion engine

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Engine fueled by gasoline

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1764

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  • James Hargreaves inventing Spinning Jenny

- possible for one lesson to spin many threads at same time

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Machines near water supply because

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more progress when ways found using power of falling water vs hand power in running textile machines

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Factory locations

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near rivers so could supply necessary water power

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Towns grew where

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Around factories

54
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Water power didn’t work well with

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Heavy machinery

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After steam engine, factories could be …

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set up near raw materials and town markets

56
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Eli Whitney

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  • American inventor

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