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    helped to provide a better and easier way of living. This can be seen with the development of the steam engine and even the creation of the automobile. However beneficial these machinery and technologies are they are also one of the biggest problems in creating pollution. Pollution can be “primarily caused by emissions produced by fossil fuel powered engines, including motor vehicle and non road engines and vehicles" (Air Pollution from Carbon Monoxide,…

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    Where would we be today without technology? Technology has been a component of our modern day lives dating back at least two centuries. The earliest forms of technology don't look like anything like what we have today, but it has always made our lives more facile and preponderant. The industrial revolution took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in the rural components of Europe and America. Without the genuine upgrades of substantial scale assembling, transportation and…

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    allowed for mass production. Mass production let us to create not several inventions in a short period of time, but thousands of them. The effectiveness of transportation has also changed dramatically, steam powered trains which were created in 1804 and ships which were invented in the late 18th century. Steam-powered trains transported town citizens and exported products across Britain in a fraction of the time it would take if riding on a horse in the…

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    effect on Britain's economy. The ever improving textile inventions helped to continue Britain’s economic growth. The spinning jenny and the water frame were eventually used to create more profitable inventions that had to do with energy like the steam engine, this caused even more economic growth. With new inventions that made even more money, the textile industry grew and was able to produce more yarn and faster spinning techniques, which in turn led to the economy growing even more. The…

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    World history was greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution came worldwide; the United States, Germany India, etc. Many innovations were made in this era. Innovations in areas such as printing and communications, Textile and manufacturing, and transportation, were benefitted by the evolutions of them. The innovations during the Industrial revaluations greatly changed the lives of the middle and lower class, by making technology more widely available. As such the…

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    Industrial Revolution Throughout history, there have always been educational, economical, artistic, political and cultural revolutions. These developments have had changes and impacts on people's lives, one revolution that has forever changed history is the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution, there were many effects, like child labor, public health, income, urbanization and so on. However, it had three major influences which were technology, transportation and the…

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    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 be related to the agricultural…

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    As specialized ability established between small operations in the field and then spread, and amplified. Designers, and James Watt, who reinforced the steam engines, associated with industrial, and accordingly consolidates thinking and delivery. Improvements in the generation of steam engines and iron, which opened the way for the railways and steam ships, iron and accessories, incredibly separate pieces. Physical generation supplanted…

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    As the country began to industrialize itself more, the need for coal increased in order to fuel steam engines and furnaces. As factories developed and the steam engine improved, it led to a higher demand for coal and as a result coal mines got deeper and deeper. Coal mining became increasingly dangerous. Coal became a key factor in the success of industrialization because it was used to produce the steam power on which industry depended. Improvements in mining technology established coal as a…

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    The Industrial Revolution is the period in the world that the world as it was known began to truly change into the world that we know today. During this period several inventions were made that we still use even today. These inventions include the successful harnessing of electricity, the automobile, telephones, radios, grocery stores, trolley cars systems, the airplane to name a few. Although before all of these wonderful tools, and methods that we as members of the twenty first century society…

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