Nicholas Miller Nicholas Brown Lauren Messing

 Many people in England towards the start of the revolution began to produce iron by using wood or charcoal in order to fuel the forges needed to separate the element from its ore  Later on, some discovered that coal worked better than wood or charcoal  Great Britain had a huge advantage because they had a lot of these materials  As revolution continued, iron and coal became two of the most important raw materials to use

 Iron smelting corporations used coke, a by-product of coal, to make the smelting process much easier  This product helped quicken the smelting process, making more product

 Coal didn’t just help create iron, the gases released from burning it gave people the ability to produce light  People used these gases to light homes  Helped create street lamps in London in the 1830’s

 As revolution circled, Thomas Newcomen invented the first successful steam engine in 1712 using iron  A little after this invention, many iron based steam engines exploded due to high pressure  Workers needed new material that could withstand the pressure  Inventors came up with a stronger and harder metal that could withstand the pressure based off iron  This iron (with removed impurities) was called steel

 Britain had an advantage during the industrial revolution  They introduced the power-driven in many industries  Production of shoes, clothing, ammunition, and furniture became mechanized, as did printing and papermaking  British entrepreneurs banned the exploration of machinery and goods from Britain, but technologies spread by luring British experts with lucrative offers, and even smuggling secrets into other countries. This helped spread goods to France, Germany, Belgium and the U.S.

 These famous innovators created a more cheaper, easier, and more efficient process of making steel  It involved forcing air through molten iron to burn carbon and their impurities  Became known as the Bessemer Process  This was similar to the steel- making technique that was created 1500 years ago by the Haya people of South America

 Stock loads of iron helped produce many new machines, and new tools  Smelting iron with coal helped produce street lamps and light  Steel helped produce even greater and stronger machines and tools  Great Britain helped spread these well designed machines and tools to other countries, and helped spread the ideas of the industrial revolution  Inventors and innovators during this time designed the tools, and created the tools still existing today