Chapter 5 Flashcards
Charles Townshed
Discovered that fields did not have to be left fallow if farmers would rotate the crops they planted in a field.
This is called crop rotation
His ideas helped revolutionize agriculture
Agricultural Revolution
- key to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution because it greatly increased food amounts and variety
- farmers planted more items and developed new ways of using land and making it more productive
Crop Rotation
Growing one type of crop for one or two years, then switching to a different crop for one or two years.
Made by Charles Townshed
Jethro Tull
Found a method of planting seeds that was better than the random scattering.
He developed the seed still that planted seeds in straight rows
Enclosure Movement
Fenced off of public lands by individual landowners in the 1700s.
Wealthy land owners farmed lager amounts more efficiently with this
Domestic System
Entrepreneurs developed a system of manufacturing wool cloth.
John Kay
A clockmaker who invented the flying shuttle, which replaced the hand-held shuttle used in weaving
Richard Arkwright
Invented water frame.
Samuel Crompton
Invented spinning mule, which combined arkwrights water frame and Hargreaves spinning Jenny
Edward Cartwright
Built a loom in which the weaving action was powered by water.
Thomas Newcomen
Developed a safer steam powered pump. But broke down frequently
James Watt
Developed ways of improving newcomens engine. Got four times more power than Newcomens
Abraham Darby
He developed a way to use coke (he made coke from coal) in place of charcoal to help iron production
Henry Cort
Developed a puddling process in which molten iron was stirred with a long rod.
Also developed a technique to run molten iron in sheets for iron sheets
Henry Bessemer
Developed a procedure that made the production of steel easier and cheaper.
He created the Bessemer process