1. Dawn of the Industrial Age
Chapter 5 Section 1

2. Industrial Revolution
What is it?
Discuss with your neighbor

3. Industrial Revolution
What is it?
Industrial Revolution=a chain of events set in motion in the mid-1700s that slowly changed life from hand tools to complex machines.
Starts in Britain

4. Industrial Revolution
What did the world look like before the industrial revolution?
Discuss with your neighbor

5. Industrial Revolution
What did the world look like before the industrial revolution?
1750, most worked on the land
Handmade tools
Firelight and candles
Made own food and clothes
1850, people lived in urban centers
Buy things
New inventions

6. Inventions 1830-1855 Anesthetic U.S. dentist developed
Prevents pain during surgery
Sewing Machine
U.S. invention
Antiseptic
Hungarian doctor
Reduced risk of women dying during childbirth

7. Agriculture Spurs Industry
Farming methods improved
Dutch led way in agricultural revolution
1700s, British expanded on Dutch methods
Charles Townshend
Urged to grow turnips as they restored the soil
Jethro Tull
Invented the seed drill to aid farmers
Deposited seeds in rows rather than scattering wastefully over the land

8. Jethro Tull’s Seed Drill

9. Enclosure Increases Output
The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
Wealth landowners did this
To create larger fields that could be cultivated more efficiently
Farm output ROSE

10. Enclosure Increases Output
What might have happened to the peasant farmers?
Discuss with your neighbor

11. Enclosure Increases Output
Fewer workers needed
No work, and no land
Peasants left looking for work
Labor force was growing

12. Population Population multiplies considerably Britain
million people
million people
Why did this happen?
Discuss with your neighbor

13. Population Reduced risk of disease Reduced risk of famine
Surplus of food
Sanitation and hygiene improved
Improved medical care

14. Population Reduced risk of disease Reduced risk of famine
Surplus of food
Sanitation and hygiene improved
Improved medical care

15. New Technology Energy Revolution Vital power source=coal
Steam engine used coal
James Watt
Improved steam engine
Steam engine key to industrial revolution
Opened door for trains and steamships

16. New Technology Iron improves Coal used for producing iron
1709, Abraham Darby used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron from its ore
Smelt
To melt rock that contains metal in order to get metal out