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    The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Several factors contributed to Britain's early industrialization, including agricultural innovations that increased food production, new transportation technologies like steam engines and railroads, and Britain's developed banking system. These changes led to rapid urbanization as people moved to cities to work in new factories. The textile industry was one of the first to industrialize due to inventions that mechanized cotton and spinning processes. New steam engines and railroads further transformed transportation of goods and people.

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    The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Several factors contributed to Britain's early industrialization, including agricultural innovations that increased food production, new transportation technologies like steam engines and railroads, and Britain's developed banking system. These changes led to rapid urbanization as people moved to cities to work in new factories. The textile industry was one of the first to industrialize due to inventions that mechanized cotton and spinning processes. New steam engines and railroads further transformed transportation of goods and people.

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    The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Several factors contributed to Britain's early industrialization, including agricultural innovations that increased food production, new transportation technologies like steam engines and railroads, and Britain's developed banking system. These changes led to rapid urbanization as people moved to cities to work in new factories. The textile industry was one of the first to industrialize due to inventions that mechanized cotton and spinning processes. New steam engines and railroads further transformed transportation of goods and people.

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    The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Several factors contributed to Britain's early industrialization, including agricultural innovations that increased food production, new transportation technologies like steam engines and railroads, and Britain's developed banking system. These changes led to rapid urbanization as people moved to cities to work in new factories. The textile industry was one of the first to industrialize due to inventions that mechanized cotton and spinning processes. New steam engines and railroads further transformed transportation of goods and people.

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    1 The Beginning of Industrialization

    Industrial Revolution Begins in Britain (1700) Water Transportation


    Agricultural Revolution Paved the Way Robert Fulton ordered a steam engine from Boulton
    Wealthy landowners enclosed their land with fences and and Watt, and built Clermont (steamboat).
    hedges. Road Transportation
    Enclosure movement: In 1800, John McAdam (Scottish engineer) equipped
     Landowners tried new agricultural methods. road beds with a layer of large stones for drainage.
     Large landowners forced small farmers to give The Railway Age Begin
    up farming and move to cities.
    Steam-Driven Locomotives
    Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701 it allows one
    to sow seed in well-spaced rows at specific depths. In 1804, Richard Trevithick haul ten tons of iron over
    Rotating Crops nearly ten miles of track in a steam-driven locomotive.

    Crop rotation is one of the best developments by George Stephenson builds some 20 engines for mine
    scientific farmers. operations in northern England. He began to work on
    the world’s first railroad line.
    Robert Bakewell increased his mutton output by
    allowing only his best sheep to breed, other farmers The Liverpool-Manchester Railroad (1830)
    followed Bakewell’s lead. Between 1700-1786, the
    weight of lambs climbed from 18-50 pounds. In 1829, choose the best locomotive for use on the new
    line. Five engines entered the competition, designed by
    Why the Industrial Revolution Began in England Stephenson and his son.
    Industrialization process of developing machines Railroads Revolutionize Life in Britain
    production.
    Locomotive 4 major effect:
    Business people, Britain’s highly developed banking
    system also contributed to industrialization.  Giving a cheap way to transport products
    Factors of production are the resources needed to  Created hundreds of thousands of new jobs
    produce to goods and services that the industrial  Boosted agricultural and fishing industries
    revolution required (land, labor, and capital).  Making travel easier
    Inventions Spur Industrialization 2 Industrialization
    Changes in the Textile Industry Industrialization Changes Life
    Major invention had modernized the cotton industry. Industrial Cities Rise
    In 1722, John Kay made a flying shuttle that sped back Urbanization city building and movement of people to
    and forth on wheels. cities.
    In 1764, James Hargreaves invented the spinning
    London was the country’s most important city. During
    wheel (spinning jenny).
    the 1800s population exploded providing a vast labor
    In 1769, Richard Arkwright invented the water frame. pool by 1800
    In 1779, Samuel Crompton combined the spinning
    jenny and water frame to produce a spinning mule.
    In 1787, Edmund Cartwright’s power loom sped up
    weaving.
    Wealthy textile merchants set up machines in large
    buildings called factories it needed waterpower so the
    first ones were built near rivers and streams.
    In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which
    multiplied the amount of cotton that could be cleaned.
    Improvements in Transportation
    Watts’s Steam Engine
    In 1765, James Watt make the steam engine work
    faster and more efficiently.
    In 1774, Watt joined Matthew Boulton (entrepreneur)
    he paid Watt a salary to build better engines.

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