industrial revolution Flashcards
what years did the revolution
1760-1914
Life before
Before the industrial revolution life was hard
Most people were farmers working in small towns and villages
Education was poor
where did the rev begin
Britain in the 1760s
what did Britain surge ahead in the production of
inexspenive cotton goods
what is the cottage industry
the manufaction of cloth in rural cottages in Britain during the 18th century
who invented the spinning jenny
1764 james hargreaves
who made the water powered loom
edmund cartwright in 1787
what do the spinning jenny and water powered loom do
spin thread faster
who designed the first steam engine
Thoman newcomen
who invented the steam engine with rotary motion
james watt
what year did watt make changes to drive the machinery
1782
why did factories not need to be by water anymore
because steam engines were powered by coal
why did the iron industry boom
bc the need for coal for steam engines
whe was the first locomotive pulled on an industrial line in britain
1804
In 1837 british inventors william cooke and charles wheatstone patented the
first commercial telegraph
1852
britain produced almost 3 million tons of more iron than was produced by the rest of the world combined