The Industrial Revolution changed daily life because of the many things that were invented in order to get where we are as a people today. With Charles Townshend, he improved the methods of farming. He “urged farmers to grow turnips, which restored exhausted soil” (197). In Jethro Toll’s case, he invented new farming devices such as the seed drill and aid to farmers. That “deposited seeds in rows rather than scattering them wastefully over the land” (197).For Thomas Newcomen, He was the inventor of new technology. He “developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of mines” (198). Then there’s James Watt, in which he was a Scottish engineer, who became known as the “Father of the industrial revolution” (198). He improved the steam
