The Industrial Revolution

A complete change Revolt Revolution Rise in rebellion against authority

The Industrial Revolution Agricultural Revolution Industrial Revolution Beginning of the factory products More food production by fewer people (new farming methods and developments in agricultural machinery)

The Industrial Revolution brought change  Domestic or cottage industries disappeared  Replaced by an industrial economy with people working in large factories.

The Industrial Revolution brought change  One new development led to other.  Higher wages in factories than on the farms  People left the countryside.  Large industrial towns---cheap, small houses for workers Manchester

James Watt and the steam engine  Son of Scottish businessman  Mathematical – instrument maker  1763, worked on early type of steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen  This was his first and greatest invention  the first two engines were put on work

James Watt and the steam engine The steam engine with up and down action

James Watt and the steam engine The steam engine with rotary motion

The steam engine at work Coal mines Furnaces Up and down action

Iron mills Paper mills Sugar mills Canals Flour mills The steam engine at work Cotton mills Rotary motion

The steam locomotives

The steamship

Destruction for Indian textiles  British manufacturer could not compete with either the price or quality of Indian cloth.  Indian textiles --- great import in Britain before Industrial Revolution

Destruction for Indian textiles  British manufacturer could produce thread 15 times faster than Indian spinning by hand  Good quality/cheaper  Stopped importing Indian cloth  Began to sell British- produced cotton in India  Indian workers out of work. Indian industry largely destroyed. During Industrial Revolution