The industrial Revolution has the most far reaching changes in the history of humanity.It has altered our lives more than any development in the past thousands of years.There are some very important global influences of industrial revolution. It led people from countryside to towns and cities.But the growth of cities continued as industries continued to grow and by 2008 ,for the first time in the human history,more people in the world lived in cities than in rural areas.The industrial revolution has also resulted in modern technological innovations such as steam engines,cars,computers,railroads.Industrial Revolution had a impact on the shaping of cities ,the way we produce things,the way we live,where we live.
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Roads at that time in London were in terrible state but the growth of Industrial revolution needed a good transportation system.This led to difficulties in transporting goods to the market.Local Authorities ,facing these difficulties applied for “Turnpike Acts’that allowed for new roads to be constructed,paid out for tolls placed on passing traffic.New construction techniques were developed by pioneering engineers such as John McAdam and Thomas Telford,led to building of numerous roads in the 1780’s. This improvement achieved by the 18th century builders in the infrastructure can be judged by the amount of travel time that got reduced in the early 1800 to travel from London to Edinburgh from two weeks too two days only half a century …show more content…
The cities or towns thatsprung up so rapidly from villages had no arrangements at all to cater the population that was migrating from other places.These towns had only the most elementary arrangements or none like ,for providing water,cleaning refuse or sewage or for treating mass epidemics.Limted water supplies was contaminated by sewage,there were quite inadequate arrangements fro disposal of waste and the garbage was piling up .Overcrowding grew worse as the dwellings per acre and also more people per
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Roads at that time in London were in terrible state but the growth of Industrial revolution needed a good transportation system.This led to difficulties in transporting goods to the market.Local Authorities ,facing these difficulties applied for “Turnpike Acts’that allowed for new roads to be constructed,paid out for tolls placed on passing traffic.New construction techniques were developed by pioneering engineers such as John McAdam and Thomas Telford,led to building of numerous roads in the 1780’s. This improvement achieved by the 18th century builders in the infrastructure can be judged by the amount of travel time that got reduced in the early 1800 to travel from London to Edinburgh from two weeks too two days only half a century …show more content…
The cities or towns thatsprung up so rapidly from villages had no arrangements at all to cater the population that was migrating from other places.These towns had only the most elementary arrangements or none like ,for providing water,cleaning refuse or sewage or for treating mass epidemics.Limted water supplies was contaminated by sewage,there were quite inadequate arrangements fro disposal of waste and the garbage was piling up .Overcrowding grew worse as the dwellings per acre and also more people per