Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution The IR started when people stopped making products at home and started making products faster, cheaper, and better in factories. Industrial Revolution

For hundreds of years there was very little change in technology in Europe. People lived and worked with the same simple tools that their ancestors had used. . Little had changed since the time the ancient Romans lived 1,500 years before.

Candles lit homes, animals provided help for transportation, and craftsmen used their skills to make hand-constructed goods in their homes or small shops. Cottage Industries

Even books were written and illustrated by hand. Look at the beautiful writing and illustrations of the pages in the books on the next slides. They are from the Book of Words

In the mid-1700s life began to change in Europe. The Industrial Revolution began. This was a revolution of inventiveness. The change started slowly, but rapidly began to spread throughout the world.

The age of the machine had begun and life would NEVER be the same!

Many new inventions helped get the Industrial Revolution started Including:

Advances in Textiles Spinning Jenny The Spinning Jenny spun thread faster Spinning Jenny

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton saving time and labor.

The steam engine could be used as a transportation device in trains and ships. Or to run entire factories that made products. Steam Engine

Steam engine

Factory system Factories were built near areas that had natural resources where power machines could make goods

Advances in Transportation

Railroads With the invention of the steam engine, trains and railroads became an efficient way to move people and products across the country.

Transcontinental RR The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.

The transcontinental RR met in Utah

In addition to trains, ships could also move goods more quickly with the new engines.

Canals Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water. Canals shortened the routes between ports. The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Erie Canal 1825

Panama Canal The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

Advances in Communication Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code). Telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb which allowed factories to work at night.

Edison’s inventions Motion picture camera

Phonograph

Development of Cities Workers from farms came to the factories to work and live. Modern cities began to develop around the new factories.