1. Factors that Led to the Industrial Revolution

2. The Industrial Revolution
The shift of production from simple hand tools to complex machines and from human and animal power to steam power.

3. I. The Agricultural Revolution
New methods
1. mixing soils
2. crop rotation
New Technology: seed drill
Enclosures: larger land to cultivate more efficiently.

4. Seed drill

5. The Agricultural Revolution
New help:
Better breeds of horses, sheep and other cattle
Farm journals

6. The Agricultural Revolution
Human Costs:
Farm laborers and small farmers lost their jobs and left their villages
Farmers became new labor force for the factories

7. II. Population Explosion
Decrease in death rates
Agricultural Revolution reduced the risk of famine
Disease faded away with improved hygiene and sanitation
Improvement of medical care

8. III. Energy Revolution Old sources of energy: people & cattle
New sources of energy: water mills and windmills
Use of coal
The development of the STEAM ENGINE

9. Watermill
Windmill