1. Industrial Revolution
New Inventions
of the
Industrial Revolution

2. John Kay’s “Flying Shuttle”

3. The Power Loom

4. James Watt’s Steam Engine

5. Steam Tractor

6. Steam Ship

7. An Early Steam Locomotive

9. Later Locomotives

10. The Impact of the Railroad

11. “The Great Land Serpent”

12. Crystal Palace Exhibition: 1851
Exhibitions of the new industrial utopia.

13. Crystal Palace: Interior Exhibits

14. Crystal Palace: British Ingenuity on Display

15. Crystal Palace: American Pavilion

16. The "Have-Nots":
The Poor,
The Over-Worked,
& the Destitute

17. Factory Wages in Lancashire, 1830
20 s. (shillings) in 1830 is equivalent to about $80 today
Age of Worker
Male Wages
Female Wages
under 11
2s 3d.
2s. 4d.
4s. 1d.
4s. 3d.
10s. 2d.
7s. 3d.
17s. 2d.
8s. 5d.
20s. 4d.
8s. 7d.
22s. 8d.
8s. 9d.
21s. 7d.
9s. 8d.
20s. 3d.
9s. 3d.
16s. 7d.
8s. 10d.
16s. 4d.
8s. 4d.
13s. 6d.
6s. 4d.

18. Industrial Staffordshire

19. The Silent Highwayman - 1858
Problems of Polution
The Silent Highwayman

20. The New Industrial City

21. Early-19c London by Gustave Dore

22. Worker Housing in Manchester

23. Factory Workers at Home

24. Workers Housing in Newcastle Today

25. The Life of the New Urban Poor: A Dickensian Nightmare!

26. Private Charities: Soup Kitchens

27. Private Charities: The “Lady Bountifuls”

28. Protests / Reformers

29. The Luddites: 1811-1816 Attacks on the “frames” [power looms].
Ned Ludd [a mythical figure supposed to live in Sherwood Forest]

30. The Luddite Triangle

31. The Luddites

32. The Neo-Luddites Today

33. Peterloo Massacre, 1819
British Soldiers Fire on British Workers: Let us die like men, and not be sold like slaves!

34. The Chartists Key Chartist settlements Centres of Chartism
       
Chartist settlements
        
Centres of Chartism
     
Area of plug riots, 1842

35. The “Peoples’ Charter”
Drafted in 1838 by William Lovett.
Radical campaign for Parliamentary reform of the inequalities created by the Reform Bill of 1832.
Votes for all men.
Equal electoral districts.
Abolition of the requirement that Members of Parliament [MPs] be property owners.
Payment for Members of Parliament.
Annual general elections.
The secret ballot.

36. The Chartists A female Chartist
A physical force— Chartists arming for the fight.