The industrial revolution - Les 1

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The Industrial Revolution

Main questions you should be able to answer today:

1. What was the industrial Revolution?

2. How did factory workers live?

The Industrial Revolution

The industrial revoltution began aroudn 1750 in England.

Why did it happen there and not someplace else?

1. Natural resources

2. Many harbours

3. Interested in technology and progress

But most importantly....

The Industrial Revolution

4. New techniques in the agriculture. 

Farmers were able to produce a surplus of food. Because of all this extra food the population grew. 

All these people also needed clothes. But making them by hand was not fast enough. So they had to think of something.......

The Industrial Revolution

The Spinning Jenny increased cloth production by 8 times!!

 And later the English found a new energy source:

steam power!

Steam machines needed coal to heat up the water and England had a lot of coal. 

The Industrial Revolution

After the invention of steam power, many new steam machines were invented. 

The steam machines were put in factories. Instead of people making things with their hands and tools, they were replaced by big machines that could produce much faster. 

The Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial revolution manual labour was replaced by machines and caused a radical change. 

Life in an Industrial city

The life of a factory worker was very hard. 

Low wages, poor housing, cold, overcrowded streets, no toilets or clean water, it stank!

Because of the open sewers and garbage everywhere diseases spread easily. Many people died or got sick. 

1. What was the industrial Revolution?

2. How did factory workers live?

What to do now?

Work on your assignment!