Industrial Revolution Spread of Ideas and Inventions

Innovations and Inventions!! Inventions are important factors in our everyday lives. Without people thinking of better ways to do things, or making contraptions to make work easier life would be much different for us. Scientific and technological innovations are extremely significant because they can bring about Social, Economical and Cultural change!

Industrialization Spreads Following Great Britain’s industrialization period other European nations followed: France (1830 -After the French Revolution) Belgium (After 1830) The United States (After 1800) Germany (after 1870 when the German States Unified) Japan (after 1853)

Industrialization Spreads Important note: With the exception of Japan, the first countries to industrialize were the Western European countries and the United States making them the most powerful in the world. Weapon technology (cannons and guns) Large Navies, superior ships and navigation. A need for more colonies for new markets and raw materials –

Mass Production As manufactured goods became cheaper, and as more people were able to buy them, the demand for manufactured goods became greater than the supply. The Assembly line (1913) Automobile industry Henry Ford Model T Buy on Credit! Assembly Line of Ford Motor Company Ford Model T Because the cars were produced so efficiently, they cost less and more people could afford to buy one.

Inventions For the middle and upper class, the Industrial Revolution made life easier. Products that were once only available by creating them at home became commercially available. “Clermont” Steam Boat Robert Fulton Robert Fulton's steamboat made trade across the ocean more efficient than carrying goods while depending on sails. Boats like his Clermont could also travel upstream easier and faster and without any problem!  

Inventions The spinning of cotton into threads for weaving into cloth had traditionally taken place in the homes of textile workers - known as 'cottage industries'. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once.  James Hargreaves

Notable People Technology Society Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin Henry Bessemer- steel production Robert Fulton – Steamboat Louis Pasteur – germ theory of disease and pasteurization. Thomas Edison – incandescent light bulb, phonograph, motion-picture camera; electricity modern research laboratory. Graham Bell – telephone Guglielmo Marconi – radio waves. Orville and Wilbur Wright – Airplane. Society Charles Darwin – Natural selection and evolution. Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalysis, and the founder of modern psychiatry.

Major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR COUNTRY PHOTO 1721 Seed Drill crumbling) the soil so that air and moisture could reach the roots of the crop plants. Jethro Tull Britain 1733 Flying Shuttle represented an important step toward automatic weaving John Kay 1764 Spinning Jenny capable of spinning eight threads of cotton yarn, instead of the spinning wheel's one   James Hargreaves 1769 Water-frame transformed the textile industry and helped usher in the Industrial Revolution Richard Arkwright

Major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR COUNTRY PHOTO 1769 Steam Engine Steam powered engines are more powerful and efficient James Watt Scotland 1779 Spinning Mule combined the moving carriage of the spinning jenny with the rollers of the water frame Samuel Crompton Britain 1785 Power Loom This used water as power instead of human power which sped up the weaving process. Edmund Cartwright 1793 Cotton Gin it dramatically reduced the amount of time it took to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber Eli Whitney United States 1804 Steam Locomotive vehicles that run on rails or tracks and are powered by steam engines. Richard Trevithick Major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution