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9 Cards in this Set
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capital |
-the main center of the industrial revoltion
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daniel dafoe |
- one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain - English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe -quote in 1728 led entrepreneures to look for new methods of manuefactorings |
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steam engine |
-created by mase watt -changed the position where they could be located, no more near rivers -triumph in industrial revolution -would power spinners for cotton -more use of coal |
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james watt |
-scotish engineer -creator of the steam engineer -helped in reduce price in cotton |
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henry cort |
-new system called puddling which got rid of impurities to make it stronger (pig iron) - |
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richard trevick |
-pioneer of the first steam powered engine locomotive -pulled 10 tons and can carry 70 people at 5 mph -engines built be george stephenson - public train later on could go up to 50 mph |
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rocket |
-built by richard trevick - a train that could reach 16 mph -fast at the time |
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great exibition |
-exepited britains greats works -a crystal palace to show off what they accomplished -by the year of the year of the great exibition , they have become the worlds first industialized nation -at the time they produce threee times as more in the 1780s |
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agricultural revolution |
-IN BRITAIN -changes in methods of farming and stock breeding that helped in the increase of food prduction -why: it led to lowerprices, less labor, and less hunger |
