1 / 25

English Industrial Revolution

storia. English Industrial Revolution. WHY “REVOLUTION”?. We can say it was a REVOLUTION because it CHANGED the life of people. WHY IN ENGLAND?. from 6 to 9 mln inhabitants. The population increased. Large Empire. Strong economy. Inventions. Population density. INNOVATIONS.

mcora
Download Presentation

English Industrial Revolution

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. storia English Industrial Revolution

  2. WHY “REVOLUTION”? • We can say it was a REVOLUTION because it CHANGED the life of people.

  3. WHY IN ENGLAND? from 6 to 9 mln inhabitants • The population increased • Large Empire • Strong economy • Inventions

  4. Population density

  5. INNOVATIONS • A new steam engine was used in factories to give power to the machines expecially in TEXTILE INDUSTRY The most important innovations were • 1763 James Watt developed a new steam engine. • 1764 Invention of the “spinning Jenny”. It created a big change in textile industry. • 1783 Steam powered cotton mill invented by Sir Richard Arkwright

  6. James Watt STEAM ENGINE • More durable and efficient • BUT it needs: • Coal opened a lot of coal mines • Iron it was used to make machines, trains, ships • money • Men, women and children went to work in factories because they need workers

  7. CONSEQUENCES… • Machines to do the work of hand tools • Commerce and industry were closely related. • Growth of demand

  8. …SO… • technological innovations • Development of mining industry • Commerce development (import ed export) • changes in production • Increased production of iron • Development of textile industry

  9. Exports of manufactures of cotton (in thousands of pounds)

  10. Production of iron ore (thousand tonnes)

  11. Coal production

  12. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION come quickly new classes • MIDDLE CLASS (doctors, lawyers, factory owners, merchants) had a confortable life and became richer.

  13. WORKING CLASS (proletarians): people from the countryside began to move into the towns, looking for a better paid work. Factory workers were paid very little and it was difficult to find a place to live in the city. Most families lived in a room (sometimes several families lived together) cold, dark and unhealthy. People (men, women and children) worked at least 12 hours a day from Monday to Saturday, some also worked on Sunday, in terrible conditions.

  14. A NEW LANDSCAPE • Widening of roads and transport:Renewed the road networkThe rivers are made navigable canals, and many are built. • Concentration of industrial areas in the plains, near mines and roads • Begin to form the industrial cities high concentration of factories and overcrowded slums for the workers

  15. Canals and roads in England at the end of XVIII century

  16. the end

More Related