1. INDUSTRIALIZATION

2. Great Britain
is an Island

3. BRITAIN’S INDUSTRY
In about 1790 the United Kingdom experienced the first industrial revolution.
Began with James Watt’s Steam Engine

4. Britain’s Industry
a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual labor and draft-animal–based economy towards machine-based manufacturing.
Trade expansion was enabled by the introduction of canals, improved roads and railways-Infrastructure
Development of mechanization of industry

5. Britain's Canals

6. Spread of the Revolution
1790 United Kingdom
1809 Westphalia Germany
1825 Belgium
1820’s Sweden
1870’s United States
1877 Japan
1890’s Russia
1960’s Taiwan, South Korea

7. British Empire

8. Effects of Industrialization
Cheaper products
Increased life expectancy and better education made available
made the urban worker more dependent on the will of the employer than the rural worker had been.
Factories and mines employed children because they were smaller and cheaper.

9. URBANIZATION
People were flocking to work in the factories which were all in the cities or urban areas
From the farms to the cities

10. Pollution
Massive amounts of pollution filled the air and soot covered the trees and stained the brick buildings

11. Increasing pollution today
With China’s substantial industrialized growth, it is likely that we will see more cars on the road, creating more emissions.
As more countries begin to develop, there will be more pollution.
As the economies improve, so does the amount of fossil fuels being burned.

12. Industry’s affect on the environment
Hydro-electric dams
Pollution
Deforestation
What other ways have industry affected the environment?

13. Negative effects of industrialization
Noise, air, and water pollution
poor nutrition
poverty, homelessness in cities
Health problems

14. Industrialization
A change in society from an agrarian (farming) culture to an industrial culture
More people working and moving to the cities to work in factories
Factories mass produce goods for society which makes more and cheaper products

15. Less Developed Countries
The words ‘Less Developed’ refer to the lack of developed industry in these countries.
Typically less developed countries are agrarian

16. Industry continues…
New technology is always being developed which allows us to adapt
Development of air conditioning
Desalinization
What other adaptations have we developed?

17. Desalinization plant in Israel