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    This summary analyzes three sources about transportation changes during the Industrial Revolution. Source 1 describes the Bridgewater Canal that was built in the late 18th century to transport goods between Manchester and Liverpool more cheaply via canal rather than over land. The canal was 90 miles long with over 70 locks and 5 tunnels, cutting transportation costs. Source 2 is an 1814 painting showing Middleton Colliery, and Source 3 is a 1855 painting depicting a train meeting, both illustrating technological changes in transportation.

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    This summary analyzes three sources about transportation changes during the Industrial Revolution. Source 1 describes the Bridgewater Canal that was built in the late 18th century to transport goods between Manchester and Liverpool more cheaply via canal rather than over land. The canal was 90 miles long with over 70 locks and 5 tunnels, cutting transportation costs. Source 2 is an 1814 painting showing Middleton Colliery, and Source 3 is a 1855 painting depicting a train meeting, both illustrating technological changes in transportation.

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    This summary analyzes three sources about transportation changes during the Industrial Revolution. Source 1 describes the Bridgewater Canal that was built in the late 18th century to transport goods between Manchester and Liverpool more cheaply via canal rather than over land. The canal was 90 miles long with over 70 locks and 5 tunnels, cutting transportation costs. Source 2 is an 1814 painting showing Middleton Colliery, and Source 3 is a 1855 painting depicting a train meeting, both illustrating technological changes in transportation.

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    This summary analyzes three sources about transportation changes during the Industrial Revolution. Source 1 describes the Bridgewater Canal that was built in the late 18th century to transport goods between Manchester and Liverpool more cheaply via canal rather than over land. The canal was 90 miles long with over 70 locks and 5 tunnels, cutting transportation costs. Source 2 is an 1814 painting showing Middleton Colliery, and Source 3 is a 1855 painting depicting a train meeting, both illustrating technological changes in transportation.

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    SOURCE 1

    John Constable painted this artwork of a navigable river at East Bergholt in Essex in 1817

    SOURCE 1:
    This source shows the extension of the Bridgewater canal. This provided manufacturers in
    Manchester an alternative way of transporting their goods to the Liverpool port. As this was
    reducing the costs of transporting goods between these two cities, Bridgewater had very
    little difficulty in persuading others to use the canal. This particular canal began within a few
    miles of the River Mersey and finished close to the River Trent in Derbyshire. It was made to
    be ninety miles long with much more than 70 locks and five tunnels. Although the canal
    was very expensive to construct, it largely reduced the price of transporting goods.

    ANALYSIS: This Artwork is a primary source by John Constable who was an eyewitness to the
    change in transportation during the Industrial Revolution. This is a valuable source for
    historians (intended to have an audience of the general public) as it supports other
    information surrounding the building of canals. This also provides further details of the
    expansion and length and soon after, that communities and others all jumped on board to
    further develop more canals.
    SOURCE 2

    George Walker, Middleton Colliery (1814)

    SOURCE 3

    Abraham Solomon, First Class - the Meeting (revised version, 1855)

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