The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

A complete change

Revolt

Revolution

Rise in rebellion against authority

The Industrial Revolution

AgriculturalRevolution

IndustrialRevolution Beginning of the

factory products

More food production by fewer people (new farming methods and

developments in agricultural machinery)

The Industrial Revolution brought change

Domestic or cottage industries disappeared

Replaced by an industrial economy with people working in large factories.

The Industrial Revolution brought change

One new development led to other.Higher wages in factories than on the farmsPeople left the countryside.Large industrial towns---cheap, small houses for workers Manchester

James Watt and the steam engineSon of Scottish businessmanMathematical – instrument maker 1763, worked on early type of steam engine invented by Thomas NewcomenThis was his first and greatest invention1776 --- the first two engines were put on work

James Watt and the steam engine

The steam engine with up and down action

James Watt and the steam engine

The steam engine with rotary motion

The steam engine at work

Coal mines

Furnaces

Up and down action

Iron mills

Paper mills

Sugar mills

Canals

Flourmills

The steam engine at work

Cotton mills

Rotary motion

The steam locomotives

The steamship

Destruction for Indian textiles

British manufacturer could not compete with either the price or quality of Indian cloth.Indian textiles --- great import in Britain

before Industrial Revolution

Destruction for Indian textilesBritish manufacturer could produce thread 15 times faster than Indian spinning by handGood quality/cheaper Stopped importing Indian clothBegan to sell British-produced cotton in IndiaIndian workers out of work. Indian industry largely destroyed.

During Industrial Revolution