Industrial Revolution Class Report

It was an ordinary school day at BIS, I had just finished my history class where we were given the assignment to write about the industrial revolution. In the class I had read a interesting fact that the population in Dortmund during the Industrial Revolution grew from 4,000 to 140,000. I was talking to my friends when Mrs.Dhillion approached me and asked me to take some papers to the D.T room. Being a good student I took them but on my way there I saw a room that I had never seen before. I opened the door and flipped on the light switch, it was a mostly empty room except for a table and a chair like object covered by a dusty white tarp. I sat down the papers on the nearby desk and flung the tarp off the “chair”. It was a weird chair that had …show more content…
They produced in the year 1956 a amount of 12.4 million tons of coal (2). This was why the air smelt burnt because the coal mines were always in use, burning the coal in the blast furnaces. Mining in Dortmund had a large boom in the town around 1837 when new technology allowed them to break through 100 meter thick rock (marl) to get to the coal below. There was a high demand for coal so it could be used as a solid fuel (coke) to power cooking ovens and more. The high demand for coal eventually lead to the creation of multiple railroad systems in Germany (3). Also the houses were made of stone and brick as to not catch on fire from the flying ember …show more content…
The familiar clanking sounds happened then there was a even brighter white light and I was sitting in the new room that I had found. I quickly started writing the events of the day down and summarized how industrial revolution begins. Industrial revolution is caused when a large amount of useful material (such as coal) is accessible and available which leads to new inventions and ultimately becomes the biggest area of income and development. After writing I continued my day and was for the first time ever excited to write my history