A REVOLUTION OF ENERGY

• Third factor that triggers Industrial Revolution

• Energy usually provided by humans or animals

• First use of water wheels in factories (1700)

• Also used coal for steam engines

• 1712 inventor Newcomen develops coal powered steam engine

• James watt improves it in1769

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Britain leads the revolutionary field?

§ Large supplies of coal and Iron

§ Lots of workers from the farms of the agricultural revolution also the population boom

§ Technology as a part of the I.R.(not cause)

§ Economic conditions increased capital and demand

§ Stable government that supported economic growth

§ Population explosion boosts demand for goods.

EARLY FACTORY

AGE OF IRON AND COAL

• Iron technology key to Industrial revolution

• Needed for machines and steam engines

• Needed coal for fuel

• Abraham Darby began to use coal instead of wood top smelt the iron (remove ore from Iron- helped developed better quality cheaper iron

Changes in the Textile Industry

• Britain largest industry

• Early systems were slow (putting out system)

• Major invention john Kay (Flying Shuttle)

• First factories use stream and water to power machines

• Workers and machines produce a lot of goods

                              

Flying shuttle

• 1733 – John Kay (British) invented the flying shuttle

• Doubled the output of hand weavers

1769, Richard Arkwright, Great Britain

1774 – James Hargreaves, Great Britain

1779, Samuel Crompton, Great Britain

1785, Edmund Cartwright, Great Britain

1793, Eli Whitney, United States of America

1717, Thomas Newcomen, Great Britain

1769, James Watt, Scotland

STEAM CHANGES TRANSPORTATION

• PEOPLE NEEDED FASTER WAYS TO MOVE GOODS

• Improved local transport systems

• Invented steam locomotive, helped to grow railroads

• By 1870, railroads crisscross Europe

• Fulton uses Watt’s steam engine to create steamboat

• Used to carry cargo and passengers

                                             

                              

            

                    

        

1807, American

1. The invention of machines to do the work of hand tools

2. The use of steam, and later other kinds of power

3. The adoption of the factory system and mass production