Middle Class In Britain

In the 19th century, the middle class entered the picture of industrialization and was a significant class in Britain. Before their emergence, a land was considered a source of wealth and power to a person, but as the industrial revolution occurred, it changed that concept. Having a land is not only the source of power one can obtain, a person can gain wealth or power by producing and trading goods, which is what the middle class did to be more powerful and wealthy, and helped them to emerge more.
At first, the middle class were once simple farmers, who cultivated land, and did handiwork, but an alteration in economy occurred and was appearing intensively, as those same people went on to work in industries controlled by machines. The prices of all products dropped during the industrial revolution, which made a middle class individual who couldn’t have the money for the expensive products, enjoy the newly cheap products. Moreover, The middle class had different kinds of occupations during the industrial revolution: working as farmers, shoe keepers, merchants, constructors, administrators, bankers, workers in factories, mills, finance centers, and even as businessmen. They didn’t work as much as the working class, but at the same time they earned a good …show more content…
The first few steam locomotives established were used to transport products; however, in 1825, the first public transport locomotive was created for people to use. How the steam locomotive worked is an easy process to explain. First to understand, one must know that the heart of the steam locomotive was the steam engine, since it was the engine that basically made it function. Coal or wood were utilized to make fire, then the fire was used to heat water; as you heat the water, steam appears and makes the wheels