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Industrial Revolution as a Time of Change Essay

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Industrial Revolution as a Time of Change

The Industrial Revolution was a time of drastic change that transformed hand tools and hand made items to machine manufactured and produced goods. Inventions brought on the most drastic changes during the Industrial Revolution. Machines made life much easier while decreasing prices of goods and generally improving life. (mhirotsu.htm). Before the 1750's, life was primitive but simple, which is vastly different from the complex culture that arose from the Industrial Revolution. Before the first Industrial Revolution, England's economy was based upon its cottage industry. The workers would purchase raw materials from merchants, take them back to their cottages, and at home is where…show more content…
The machines quickly make their way to England, and there was no stopping them. History was moving forward at a quick and efficient pace. Be the 1750's, the Industrial Revolution had begun. In the beginning, inventions were limited to cotton weaving. This quickly changed with new inventions such as the spinning jenny and the water powered frame. A problem existed in which yarn was not being fed fast enough to the weaver, but in 1769 the spinning jenny and the water powered frame solved this problem by providing yarn faster. Edmund Cartwright, in 1880, invented the power loom, and it combined both the machine's characteristics and purposes in one machine. Cleaning cotton was always an extremely difficult and time consuming job. In 1793, Eli Whitney created a brilliant invention, the cotton gin. This marvelous invention could clean cotton 50 times faster then the average person. These new inventions all assisted the manufacturing of cotton goods by speeding up the process. (members.aol). Mass productions had begun along with capitalism. Capitalists were the people who had their own materials, money, and space. They purchased these new machines and stored them in factories where they would hire workers to tend over the machines all day while creating goods. The factory industry had soon replaced the cotton industry. The quality of life was improving as well. Mass production allowed more expensive goods, such as shoes, to be less expensive
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