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The Steam Engine: The Perils Of The Industrial Revolution

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In the 18th century the Industrial Revolution started in Britain. The Industrial Revolution was a time period when the introduction manufactory began. The Industrial Revolution changed many of the Britain’s peoples mind to the limits their government would take for their society. The promise made from the Industrial Revolution allowed for opportunities to open up with the British community. During this time period, it allowed for many inventions to have been created to benefit the British. One invention made was the steam engine. The first steam engine invented by Thomas Savery in 1698. A student who contributed to making another version of the steam engine was James Watt. The opportunity Watt had to make improvements on the current steam engine because of a Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. The ideas Watt used are …show more content…

When it came to treating workers right the factories did not. The Lowell Mills had its negative aspects. However family sent their daughters to the mills it made people feel that the traditional role of women would change. Judith Ranta states, “Others criticized the entire wage-labor factory system as a form of slavery and actively condemned and campaigned against the harsh working conditions and long hours and the increasing divisions between workers and factory owners.” In that quote she describes how people viewed the workload given to the workers. By factory owners taking away women’s social life with the outrages hours, it caused for the government to impose the Factory Act on 1847. However, with this act it restricted women from working only 10 hours a day in the textile mills. Also with these textile mills it allowed for children to work. They soon created the Factory Act of 1833 which limited child labor. By the textile industry doing all these things to children and women to cause for conflict that those citizens wanted solutions

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