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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- PART I: BEGINNINGS

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- PART I: BEGINNINGS. The Agricultural Revolution Jethro Tull-seed drill crop rotation replaces three field system Robert Bakewell- selective breeding. The Enclosure Movement- British landowners fence off common lands for scientific resource management

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- PART I: BEGINNINGS

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  1. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- PART I: BEGINNINGS

  2. The Agricultural Revolution • Jethro Tull-seed drill • crop rotation replaces three field system • Robert Bakewell- selective breeding

  3. The Enclosure Movement- • British landowners fence off • common lands for scientific • resource management • wool production • peasants move to cities

  4. Net result of Agricultural Revolution: • more food • more population • larger labor pool

  5. The factory system • When all the factors of production are located in same place • Increased efficiency and production • Requires large amounts of Capital

  6. Key Inventions spur the • textile industry which begins • British Industrialization • James Watt-the steam engine • most important invention • mobile power source

  7. JAMES WATT

  8. Other Inventions • Eli Whitney-cotton gin • Cyrus Mc Cormick-mechanical reaper • John Deere-steel plow • Samuel Morse-telegraph • I.M. Singer-sewing machine • Alexander Graham Bell-telephone

  9. Transportation • Steamboat-Robert Fulton • The railroads-move resources/people where they are needed • 1825 first railroad in England • Railroads power U.S. industrialization

  10. RIDING THE RAILS STEAM WHISTLE

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