1. Industrial Revolution
18th – 19th Centuries

2. Textile Revolution Flying Shuttle Invented: England - 1733
Significance: Sped up the weaving process
SPINNING JENNY
Invented: England
Impact: FASTER but inferior thread
WATER-POWERED LOOM
Invented: England
Impact: Fabric-weaving was taken out of homes & centralized near water

3. Cotton Gin
Invented by: Eli Whitney in 1793 (In America) Description: Allowed massive amounts of cotton to be processed quickly Impact: Textile industry moves entirely into mills NO more cottage industries/domestic system

4. Steam engine & Internal Combustion ENGINE
Made it possible to exploit vast new resources of energy stored in fossil fuels
Coal and Oil
“Fossil Fuels” revolution increased the energy available to human societies

5. The Factory System More, Faster, and Cheaper
Whitney’s Interchangeable Parts
Ford’s Assembly Line
What this means for people?
Overworked
Underpaid
Put in Harm’s Way
Child Labor
Health Problems
What do they do
About it ?

6. The Second Industrial Revolution 2nd Half of 19th Century
Steel, Chemicals, Electricity & Precision Machinery
: Steel replaced iron
Steel: Lighter, smaller, faster machines, engines, railroads, etc.
Electricity: Convertible into heat, light, motion

7. Transportation and Communication

8. TRANSPORTATION Railroads - 1880s
Factories can be built AWAY from bodies of water allowing for larger markets and opened up new forms of investment
Steamships – 1880s
Transportation along canals, rivers, and lakes made easier
Canals
Erie
Suez Canal – 1859
Panama Canal –
French Try in 1880

9. Railway Development in Europe
1840
1850

10. Railway Development in Europe
1880

11. Communication
Telegraph (1837) - Samuel Morse Telephone (1876) - Alexander Graham Bell Lightbulb (1879) – Thomas Edison Radio (1890’s) – Marconi Gulielmo

12. Financial Institutions Expanded
Capitalism and Liberalism
Financial instruments expanded
Stock Markets
Insurance
Gold Standard
Limited liability corporations
Large Transnational Businesses
The United Fruit Company
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation