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GD: The Industrial Revolution is responsible for the majority of our current technology
and way of life. We didn't change much in terms of how we disposed of waste, found
drinking water, or purchased clothing. The majority of people lived on or near the land
that provided them with food. You have electricity? Industrial Revolution. You drive a
car? Industrial Revolution. You get twelve years of free, formal education? Industrial
Revolution. Most of it: Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution was one of the most important events in world history, and it
had a huge impact on modern society. It began in Britain in the 1700s and quickly
spread throughout Europe and North America. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the
majority of industry relied on water, wind, or human energy. Cottage industries were the
type of enterprises that existed at the period. Cottage industries were a form of early
economic growth in which workers in home-based firms produced a limited number of
items.
NIAN: By the mid-1700s, however, new production methods were being developed
across Europe, particularly in Great Britain. This transition led to the factory system,
which was the creation of factories in centralized locations such as industrial towns and
cities. This period of innovation continued throughout the 19th century and led to many
new inventions by now famous inventors. In fact, one of the key features of the
Industrial Revolution is the development of new inventions that led to more automation
by machines. Significant inventions or innovations of the Industrial Revolution included:
flying shuttle, spinning jenny, power loom, water frame, cotton gin, steam engine,
telephone, light bulb, automobile, assembly line production and interchangeable parts.
One simple statistic sums it up: Prior to the industrial revolution, around 80% of the
world's population was involved in farming to feed themselves and the other 20% of the
population. The Industrial Revolution was defined by the utilization of new energy
sources and an increase in productivity brought about by the employment of machinery.
The industrial revolution began around 1750 and it occurred across most of the earth,
but it started in Europe, especially Britain.
MARI: The Industrial Revolution's innovations were inextricably linked. Consider the
British textile industry: John Kay's development of the flying shuttle in 1733 substantially
boosted weaving speed, resulting in a need for yarn, which led to inventions such as the
Spinning Jenny and the water frame. These procedures were soon mechanized using
water power, until the steam engine arrived to make the flying shuttles in these massive
cotton mills actually fly. Thomas Newcomen constructed the most successful steam
engine to drain water from mines. And because the mines were dewatered, there was
more coal to power more steam engines, which led to James Watt's fancying up of the
Newcomen Steam Engine, which enabled not only railways, automobiles and
steamboats, but also ever-more-efficient cotton mills.
ROCHELLE: Then the second industrialization happened, Various types of machines
were attempted to be invented in the nineteenth century. The majority were huge and
unwieldy, with some having the size and shape of pianos. All of them took a lot longer to
use than handwriting. Finally, in 1867, American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes
was inspired to build the first functional typewriter after reading an article in the journal
Scientific American describing a new British-invented machine. On June 23, 1868, he
patented his second model, which wrote at a rate significantly faster than a pen. Sholes
made numerous modifications to the machine over the next few years, and in 1873, he
obtained a contract with E. For manufacture, Remington and Sons, gunsmiths, of Ilion,
New York.
In 1874, the first typewriters were introduced, and the machine was quickly christened
the Remington. The cylinder, with its line-spacing and carriage-return mechanisms; the
escapement, which causes letter spacing by carriage movement; the arrangement of
the typebars so that they strike the paper at a common center; the actuation of the
typebars by key levers and connecting wires; printing through an inked ribbon; and the
positions of the different characters on the keyboard were among the original features
that were still standard in machines built a century later. Mark Twain bought a
Remington rifle and was the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript.
MARGE: The telephone, created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, was an important
invention of the second period of the Industrial Revolution. Alexander Graham Bell was
a Scottish inventor who spent the majority of his life and career inventing in both
Canada and the United States. The Industrial Revolution was one of the most significant
events in human history, profoundly altering people's lives all around the globe. While it
began in the United Kingdom, its impacts have since expanded to other parts of Europe,
the Americas, and even Asia. In general, the Industrial Revolution occurred in two
stages, which historians refer to as the First and Second Industrial Revolutions,
respectively.

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