The Start Of The 1750s: The Industrial Revolution

Times of hardship and change transpired remorefully greater during the late 1700’s and early 1800’s for Americans. A period at which rapid growth and fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, and transportation. The Industrial Revolution changed people’s way of life at which new machinery, transportation, and technology was developed. Those inventions were too advanced for workers who worked in the factories to keep up with so they had to quickly advance in their abilities. It began in England and expanded to the United States at which the supply was not meeting the demand so creating new inventions was ideal and constructed a higher supply for a greater demand for a cheaper price. John Kay in 1733 decided to invent and patent a machine that worked off of electricity that made fabric making faster and easier. He was a great inventor who changed the world by manufacturing clothing that is still in effect today and impacted the 21st century. According to Robert Edgar author of Pearson World History Past and Present textbook “,Their machines and the new power sources expanded productivity and transformed society in ways never before imagined”. As the demand was outweighing the supply, manufactures were required to generate more and meet society’s demands, which caused factories to be very diligent. The idea was off from there and traveled to the United States where it was distributed became a remarkable point in History known as The Industrial

The Industrial Revolution started in the early 19th century. It brought about a wide array of changes, both social and political. Before the invention of machine and the factory system people had to make everything by hand which meant people would make anything they could by hand and buy things they couldn’t make from people who specialized in making the particular thing they needed. The groups of people who specialized in making something were called Guilds and they would take on younger kids and teach them the craft. Working in a guild required skill and were often smaller exclusive groups of people which meant that most people lived out in the country as farmers. But then factories filled with machines started up and suddenly there was a

The Industrial Revolution was a time period in which the change in the economy through machines, such as the steam engine, characterized Europe and England. The revolution began to raise the standard of living for society. However, overtime, the transition from handmade goods to machine made products had the opposite effect on the people. The Industrial Revolution, despite the prosperous economy it brought, was not worth the health issues, harsh conditions, and dehumanization the common people had to face.

The Industrial Revolution was a time period of rapid growth in society. Referring to the 1700’s century in England where the output of machine made goods greatly increased. Prior to the changes made during the Industrial Revolution, workers often manufactured products in their homes using handtools and basic machinery. However, industrialization marked a shift of labor from small farms in rural areas to large factories in cities and was a time of new products, inventions and methods of work.The results of the Industrial Revolution led to many positive outcomes because new cultivation methods spread rapidly around the world. The Industrial Revolution made a significant political, economical, and social change throughout Europe. The Industrial

The Industrial Revolution was a time period which took place from the 18th century to the 19th century. It was when rural places in Europe and U.S. faced many changes and became modern and industrial. Before the Industrial Revolution, most things were manufactured in people’s home using hand tools or simple machines. With the growing population and increasing foreign trade, there was a need for mass production; this was made possible by replacing animal and water power with steam power. The steam engine played a pivotal role in industrialisation, which also improved transportation and communication. Furthermore, industrialisation made it much easier the mass produce goods and often allowed the poor some decent jobs. Agriculture was also revolutionised,

The Industrial Revolution took place from the 18th to 19th centuries. It was a period primarily agricultural, rural cultures in Europe and America became a manufacturing and urban. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which started in Britain in the late 1700s, engineering was often done in folks’ homes, using hand utensils or simple machinery. Mechanization marked a change to motorized, special-purpose technology, workshops, and quantity construction. The iron and fabric businesses, along with the expansion of the steam engine, played crucial roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw better-quality systems of transport, communication, and banking.

The Industrial Revolution began in England around the 1780’s. It was mainly based on the cotton industry and subsequently many of the inventions that came out of this period were mainly for producing and manufacturing cotton. Another stage of the Industrial Revolution was based on inventions. This is when most of the luxury goods were produced for the public. The Industrial Revolution is seen by scholars, as noted in A History of Western Society, as basically moderate and evolutionary. Even though the Industrial Revolution was almost inevitable many people took advantage of the new developments that came about and raised their standards of living because of the goods that were previously

Before the Industrial Revolution, people lived very simple lives, which included farming, production of their own needed goods, and people traded locally. Some factors that caused the Industrial revolution were enough people had the necessary skills for labor, natural resources with economic value were used to make products, and the capital had enough money to support to start a business. The industrial revolution started from the late 1700’s to the early 1900’s.

As it was stated in the lecture, industrial revolution was not a single revolution; it contained several different but deeply connected revolutions. Thus, the changes that influenced the life during 1750 to 1850 are all part of those several revolutions. The revolution in science and technology along with revolution ideology are the greatest changes that lead to the greatest impact on people’s life.

Great Britain had the perfect conditions to spearhead the first true revolution that had an effect in all aspects of life since the invention of fire. It possessed necessary prerequisites, such as formidable population size, bountiful coal and iron deposits, and the demand of such a revolution, to gain a head start over the rest of the world. The confluence of such factors culminated in a perfect storm, a storm that destined humanity to become more than an average species. The Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain in the 1800s was not just a revolution in industry. The Industrial Revolution was a total revolution that opened the doorway for humanity to enter the first global age and built the stairway for humanity to eventually

Nobel Prize laureate and economist Robert Emerson Lucas wrote in regards to the Industrial revolution: "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth. The novelty of the discovery that a human society has this potential for generating sustained improvement in the material aspects of the lives of all its members, not just the ruling elite, cannot be overstressed.” (Lucas 2002). The revolution itself was centred in Britain before spreading to the rest of Europe and America, and is most commonly placed within a general time period of the 18th to 19th century, though it is commonly accepted that it begun in approximately 1760 AD, and ended in 1830 AD (Ashton 1997).

The Industrial Revolution initially began in Britain and spread throughout Europe, North America and the rest of the world. It was a period of great change brought on by advancements in technologies and increases in trade, agriculture, mining, manufacturing and population growth. These advancements changed the structure of society at that time and changed the economy, which had been based on the land and manual labour, to an economy based on manufacturing by machines. Before the revolution, people had mainly made a living from working on the land and so they lived in rural areas. New technologies, inventions, methods, ideas and materials meant that things could

The Industrial Revolution, was a period of sudden and effective changes that lasted from 1780-1914. (Van Tol, Ottery, & Keith, 2012). Through the course of time, there were many advances in technology, this took lives from being agricultural to industrial. Machines were being used in every sector of the industries. This brought down the prices of goods, making them affordable by everyone and led to significant effects, many positive but also negative ones. It mainly resulted in the improvement of lives, but, it also had considerable negative effects such as child labour, pollution of the environment, countryside being replaced by cities, buildings and factories, crowding and spread of diseases due to overpopulation.

During the height of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, specifically England, was a period of mass sufferings, child induced labor, and food shortages all due to the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization, in which a large population of the people from rural areas migrated to cities and towns out of necessity for work, “half of the population of England and Wales was living in towns by 1850.” This was all witnessed by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels when they were living in England in the 1840s, it was there where Engels, whose father owned a textile factory and was a partner to cotton plant in Manchester, took extensive notes and saw first hand all atrocities and horrors present in the slums of Manchester, particularly child labor, eventually leading to his publishing of The Condition of the Working Class in England. Engels presented Marx with his recently published work in Paris igniting a longterm friendship and lifetime collaboration. Collectively, Marx and Engels deduced that there was a growing problem in England and Europe as a whole that needed to be solved. Their concerns were centered around the Industrial revolution, a movement in which machines were able to mass produce products at a more efficient rate, but at the cost of terrible living conditions, working conditions, wages, and the exploitation of the Proletariat (the working class), at the hands of the Bourgeoisie (the elite).

The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology went through a period of significant change. These changes had a profound impact on the social and cultural conditions of the time, beginning in the Untied Kingdom and spreading throughout Western Europe, North America, and