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    During the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution made a significant political, economical, and social change throughout Western Europe. The Industrial Revolution was brought on, partly, due to the English civil war. During the Industrial Revolution, England experienced major advances in transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing, which spread throughout Europe. By the 1830s most European countries started railroad construction and the mechanization of manufacturing (Hunt, 654). One of

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    “But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques… we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.” (Marvin Harris) The Industrial Revolution was a dramatic change from farm to factory. During 1760 to about 1840 society transitioned to new manufacturing processes by using complex machinery. The explosion of new inventions began in England because of the abundance of copper, iron, and tin that was mined, several river

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    Essay on the Water Frame In the years of the 1840-1870’s, the industrial revolution took place. The industrial revolution included inventing or improving industries, companies, buildings and technologies, examples like these is from Richard Arkwright’s invention, the Water frame. Richard Arkwright who hired and collaborated with John Kay (a clockmaker), invented the Water frame in Richard’s hometown, Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The invention was based on a design from Thomas Highs’ spinning machine

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    The Industrial Revolution had to be the biggest recent event that impacted peoples’ lives. It changed the way people lived, new technology and innovation, and the start of the modernized civilizations that we live in today. The Industrial Revolution affected men, women , and children alike. From the small rural communities that self-made merchandise to large corporate industries that urbanized society and laid the foundations of the society we live in today. Before the Industrial Revolution most

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    the industrial revolution was at its way, gaining many economic and technological advances but the price of hardship forced onto the workers and children during this time was paid. During this time period rural societies transformed into urban/industrial ones and a shift from working at home to factories and mass production with machinery. Many different advancements including the iron and textile industries, and also the invention of the steam engine helped pave the way of the revolution. Industrialization

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    The Industrial Revolution was the start of many of the things we know and love today like the steam engine and faster communication. We use ideas and technology that started in the Industrial Revolution every day. To most of us the Industrial Revolution was a blessing because it brought us out of the dark ages and into this fabulous modern life, even though most people do not get to reap the benefits from this time. It unequally benefitted the people who live in modernized countries today compared

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    The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the societies that experienced the process of industrialization. Some of the changes benefited society while others caused harm to most of the society. Most affected by these changes was the working class of theses societies, in regards to the working people of the country of England they had experienced a lot of pain caused by the industrialization. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain (1700) for different kinds of reasons Britain

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    Source 2 clearly indicates the long term gains of the inventions of transportation. There were three main of types of transportation improved in the Industrial Revolution to make travelling safer and more enjoyable. The 3 major transportation were were canal, railways and roads. During the Industrial Revolution coal and iron were transported through canals via as it was the cheapest way to move heavy products. As of this outcome the canals were deepened and widen to grant more boats to move through

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    The Industrial Revolution, coined as one of the most renowned and influential revolution of the modern world is built upon and beyond the label of revolutionary. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the industrial revolution harbored economic, social and political effects upon the lives of people in the era. The era booming with a rapid exchange of an agrarian society into an industrial society, migration into larger cities, a change upon the image of women, poverty, crime and labor,

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    The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth and the eighteenth centuries brought about much of the base of today’s pollutants. A series of technological advances in machinery, such as the steam engine, along with a preponderance of other goods shifting from homes and small factories to large industrial settings brought about more and more pollution. The creation of more productive processing used to manufacture cotton textiles increased the number of mills located in England and eventually moved

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