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    Causes and Consequences of Industrial Revolution The industrial revolution is a historical event that was primarily started in the 18th century in Britain. This was a slowed changeover period, which replaced manual works by new technologies invented by the scientists of that era. According to the article, “Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution”, written by Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold, the industrial revolution is explained as an economic and social change over time with modern technologies…

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    began in their because their was many rivers and seas, it was flat, strong banking system, a strong government, and it also had land labor and capital. They would use the land to get coal, and to get iron and also waterways for transportation and power. They would have labor for workforce of affordable labor. And they had a capital for money from investors, and a bank to loan money. They started to make this all new inventions and they also…

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    technical errors like scheduling, the locomotive changed the train industry like no other tool has done so before. Richard Trevethick introduced the world’s first successful locomotive in England, 1808. Later on George Stephenson put his touch on the steam engine in London, 1814. Stephenson’s locomotive was the first to be seen on the railways as Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer explain. “This machine was able to pull 30 tons of material more rapidly than a horse-drawn cart. Stephenson built many…

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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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    atmospheric steam engine) effected the revolution in profound ways. Once the engine was put into use at the mineral mines, the amount of coal and iron that was obtainable more than doubled. Britain was exporting more goods than any other nation could have dreamed of. While entirely altering the world of mineral mining, the machine simultaneously laid ground for absolutely critical inventions during the epoch — such as trains, ships, and commercial machinery (Movie 2). The importance of the steam…

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    had a lot of problems. That was until Robert Fulton was successfully able to put it on a steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807. There were still some setbacks, like when the steam built up the boat would explode. Steamboats allowed even faster travel. People saw how fast they could go on the boat so they decided to put the steam engine on a train. The train could go 20 miles an hour. The train pulled open stagecoaches so embers would fly off and land on people's clothes and set them on fire, but…

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    The Industrial Revolution Subject: History Date issued: - /7/2015 Date Due: 31/7/2015 Blake King The industrial and economic developments of the Industrial Revolution brought both hardships and progresses. The Industrial Revolution made a huge change throughout the world, marking a major turning point for human history with significant social changes of the way people live and interact with each other. The industrial revolution brought progresses such as world trade and new inventions and…

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    Power to make machines work was provided by water wheels, by horse, or by human hands or feet. Steam power was used to pumped water from some mines. But in 1825 many people still worked in small workshops, but some industries were now based in factories, where the machines were driven by steam engines. The cotton industry was now bigger and more important than the wool industry. Since 1750 coal production had tripled, and iron production had increased by ten times.…

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    in which Leuchtenburg discusses in his tenth chapter, “The Second Industrial Revolution.” The first and second revolution differ immensely due to the fact the first focused primarily on the establishment of steam powered machines while the second replaced steam with electricity as the power source. This revolution altered the daily lives of every American by changing the way of transportation, communication, and manufacturing of products. This revolution had positives and negatives, such as the…

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    only wealthy people. The Industrial Revolution meant factories could mass-produce items at much lower costs than the cottage industries, making goods more affordable to consumers. With the invention of the steam engine, a shift from rural water wheels to steam engines as an industrial power source facilitated the emergence of factories and industrial cities. Factories started the process of urbanization by causing people to leave rural sectors and move to the…

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