1. Industrial Revolution

2. Industrial Revolution
The IR started when people stopped making products at home and started making products faster, cheaper, and better in factories.
Industrial Revolution

3. For hundreds of years there was very little change in technology in Europe.
People lived and worked with the same simple tools that their ancestors had used. .
Little had changed since the time the ancient Romans lived 1,500 years before.

4. Candles lit homes, animals provided help for transportation, and craftsmen used their skills to make hand-constructed goods in their homes or small shops.
Cottage Industries

5. Even books were written and illustrated by hand.
Look at the beautiful writing and illustrations of the pages in the books on the next slides.
They are from the Book of Words

8. In the mid-1700s life began to change in Europe.
The Industrial Revolution began.
This was a revolution of inventiveness.
The change started slowly, but rapidly began to spread throughout the world.

9. The age of the machine had begun and life would NEVER be the same!

10. Many new inventions helped get the Industrial Revolution started
Including:

11. Advances in Textiles Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny spun thread faster
Spinning Jenny

12. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton saving time and labor.

15. The steam engine could be used as a transportation device in trains and ships.
Or to run entire factories that made products.
Steam Engine

16. Steam engine

17. Factory system
Factories were built near areas that had natural resources where power machines could make goods

18. Advances in Transportation

19. Railroads
With the invention of the steam engine, trains and railroads became an efficient way to move people and products across the country.

20. Transcontinental RR
The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.

22. The transcontinental RR met in Utah

24. In addition to trains, ships could also move goods more quickly with the new engines.

25. Canals
Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water.
Canals shortened the routes between ports.
The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

26. Erie Canal 1825

27. Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

28. Advances in Communication
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).
Telegraph

29. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

30. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb which allowed factories to work at night.

31. Edison’s inventions
Motion picture camera

32. Phonograph

33. Development of Cities
Workers from farms came to the factories to work and live. Modern cities began to develop around the new factories.