The Industrial Revolution

 Work done by hand  Very slow  Expensive  Maybe dangerous

 Did use some animals for work  Not 100% reliable  Expensive to feed and house them

 Make jobs simpler  Faster  Safer  Cheaper

 18 th & 19 th century  More machines for manufacturing

Coal and Colonies

 More production  More money  More things to acquire  Trade with rest of world expands

 Cotton spinning used to be by hand  Slow process  Now, with cotton from America, able to work quickly  Able to send manufactured textiles back  Made lots of money

 Able to produce cast iron cheaply  Begin making things with it by pouring liquid metal into the form they want:  Railroad tracks  Bridges  Machines  Tools

 Wind and water first used for powering factories.  Steam engine meant that factories could exist away from rivers and streams  Introduced power elsewhere, in other cities / lands  Factories begin showing up all over

 Lights allow life to continue at night  Transportation up and down rivers and along railroads  Types of jobs change, more skilled & specialized.  People move to cities  More educated  Global world smaller

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