Lesson One: Question: How did improvements in transportation affect individuals and/or nations during the 19th century? Answer: With the advanced and improved innovations of transportation, this established faster and more trade routes. The invention of the steam engine, paved roads, and locomotives allowed people to transfer goods in a short period of time. This also kept certain goods from spoiling faster. The traders went through the paved routes, making it easier to get to their…
The Industrial Revolution was a period of industrial growth during the late 1700s and early 1800s. This period of industrialization began in England but then spread to other areas of the world. The Industrial Revolution is such a significant period of history because machines were created that could do the work that people originally did. Before the revolution, England was a collection of rural communities that revolved around farming. From 1700 to 1750, Britain’s population had relatively no…
little for how much they worked, pressure of globalization led to trafficking and forced labor. Source 2 In source 2 we see lots of pollution, this was one of the downfalls of Industrial Revolution, The use of machinery and factories led to mass production, which led to the development of numerous environmental hazards. These environmental hazards led to lots of diseases and the young kids that were working in these factories dying, there were no pollution laws to stop this from happening so…
stopped for maintenance proposes. As they are highly automated and operate at very high volumes, it is very difficult to change over from producing one type of product to another. (Paton, Clegg, Hsuan, & Pilkinton, 2011) Examples of continuous production industries are the Beer Industry, Paper, Electricity Companies, etc. Figure 2: Continuous Water Treatment Process (Slack, Chambers, & Johnston, 2010) ASSEMBLY LINE PROCESSES Assembly lines are recognized by the preplanned sequence of…
Over the years, automobiles have come with new concepts and thoughts which drastically had a huge impact culturally. When the first automobile was introduced, its power came from working with steam like trains at that time. To build up steam, it needed to stop every 10 to 15 minutes having a top speed of 3 miles per hour. With this new invention came many problems. The steam carriages were viewed as a nuisance as people pointed them to be very noisy and dirty. Then, automobiles with gas…
started its industrial revolution particularly by advances concerning textile, iron, and coal industry. The United states started its industrial revolution by much more different things which concerned transportation, electricity, and efficient production of goods. Inventions such as the steam engine had positive effects on both Britain and the United states, while systems like the free enterprise had negative and positive effects alike. Overall, the industrial revolution in these countries can…
greatest impact on history and why? The Industrial Revolution was a time of change and progress towards a society in which new machines, sciences, and ideas dominated. These advances in history changed millions of lives. Fast travel, communication, mass-production and so much more became a part of this new, high functioning and effective society. This, of course, brought different feelings of inspiration and expression among artists during this time. Responses to these transitions in economic…
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…
in their backyards. They would use a barter system if they had any additional crops. Most of the manufacturing was done in people’s home, but that all changed with the Industrial revolution. The Industrial revolution was the beginning of mass production with the use of large specialized tools powered by coal. The steam engine played a big role in the development and “success” of the Industrial revolution. Although the revolution was a success, it was also a failure in the way the common…
to experience hard work and living conditions. Even though some may have benefited from it in some way, it was not worth the pain and suffering. Some causes of the industrial revolution was complex to begin with. Industrialization was a mass factory production across the globe. England was the first…