1. The Industrial Revolution

2.  Work done by hand  Very slow  Expensive  Maybe dangerous

3.  Did use some animals for work  Not 100% reliable  Expensive to feed and house them

4.  Make jobs simpler  Faster  Safer  Cheaper

5.  18 th & 19 th century  More machines for manufacturing

6. Coal and Colonies

7.  More production  More money  More things to acquire  Trade with rest of world expands

8.  Cotton spinning used to be by hand  Slow process  Now, with cotton from America, able to work quickly  Able to send manufactured textiles back  Made lots of money

9.  Able to produce cast iron cheaply  Begin making things with it by pouring liquid metal into the form they want:  Railroad tracks  Bridges  Machines  Tools

10.  Wind and water first used for powering factories.  Steam engine meant that factories could exist away from rivers and streams  Introduced power elsewhere, in other cities / lands  Factories begin showing up all over

11.  Lights allow life to continue at night  Transportation up and down rivers and along railroads  Types of jobs change, more skilled & specialized.  People move to cities  More educated  Global world smaller

12. http://storiesofusa.com/industrial-revolution- inventions-timeline-1712-1942/