How far was Britain changed by the industrial revolution 1750-1830?
How far was Britain changes by the industrial revolution 1750-1830? In the middle of the 18th century, Britain began a large and revolutionary change. This industrial revolution caused a difference to a lot of other different factors as well. The way people behaved, trade, medicine, and some other factors which will be discussed further on. The industrial revolution was due to Britain succeeding in commercial, and world wide trade. There were a few years of good farming, which meant more food and healthier people. This made the population boom, and demand for goods rose, increasing commercial consumption. At the same time of this, the British Empire was growing enormously, which increased trade, and further increasing the demand for goods. At this time, people were producing goods in small quantities- everything was hand made, and very difficult to mass produce. The demand for products made people think about how they could make things quicker, and more easily, so inventions to help were made. These started my using water power from streams, and later coal for steam. The need for coal meant that there was a small area surrounding the coal fields where population increases suddenly. Along with this, there was already an increase in population throughout Great Britain because of less infant mortality and greater life expectancy, this leads to a very high population density
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution may be defined as the application of power-driven machinery to manufacturing. It had its beginning in remote times, and is still continuing in some places. In the eighteenth century all of western Europe began to industrialize rapidly, but in England the process was most highly accelerated. England's head start may be attributed to the emergence of a number of simultaneous factors. Britain had burned up her magnificent oak forests in its fireplaces, but large deposits of coal were still available for industrial fuel. There was an abundant labor supply to mine coal and iron, and to man the factories. From the old commercial empire there remained a fleet, and England still possessed colonies to furnish raw materials and act as captive markets for manufactured goods. Tobacco merchants of Glasgow and tea merchants of London and Bristol had capital to invest and the technical know-how derived from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Last, but not least important, the insularity of England saved industrial development from being interrupted by war. Soon all western Europe was more or less industrialized, and the coming of electricity and cheap steel after 1850 further speeded the process. I. The Agricultural Revolution The English countryside was transformed between 1760 and 1830 as the open-field system of cultivation gave way to
Changes Made By The Industrial Revolution.
Changes Made By The Industrial Revolution In mid 18th century Britain, 7 million people lived in small rural villages. Farming was the main occupation for workers at this time. Apart from London there were no cities and no factories. Woollen cloth, coal mining and iron were main industries. The years between 1750 - 1850 are known as the First Industrial Revolution. In this period of time, the population of Britain trebled to 21 million people. In 1850 coal mining, iron and steel, cotton, wool and shipbuilding were now the most important industries. Between 1850 - 1880, Britain was the world's leading industrial country, sometimes called 'The Workshop Of The World'. By 1880 USA, and Germany began to challenge Britain and with the industry still growing, now producing cars, bicycles, electrical engineering and chemicals, this was now called The Second Industrial Revolution. In the early 18th century woollen cloth was the most important industry in Britain. But because the population grew so rapidly the demand for cloth was more. The domestic system could not cope with this demand and therefore lost its place to the cotton textile industry. Old looms were replaced by new machines, which were much faster and more reliable. Richard Arkwright's water frame made a huge change in the industry. From now on spinning was to be done at mills (factories) built by the sides of fast
The Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution In this assignment I will be explaining why, by the 19th century, Britain was known as the 'workshop of the world'. This was clearly defined by the Great Exhibition of the Work of Industry opened in May 1851, held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. This exhibition put on show to the world Britain's wealth and inventiveness, displaying consumer goods and machinery from its great manufacturing cities. It showed that she was a forerunner of industry and going through, what we now call, the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was revolutionary not in its speed, but in its consequences. The century between 1750 and 1850 brought about the age of machines, in factories mass production and the assembly line, industrial towns and the industrial working class. Even though the greatest changes took place between 1750 and 1850 these dates cannot be used to tie down the beginning and the end of the industrial revolution, it was a slow process that took centuries not decades. Why it happened in Britain is still debateable, but the country had ample resources of coal and iron, navigable rivers and canals, an increasing population as well as a growing empire overseas, which provided a captive market for British made products. Each of these reasons reacted with each other to encourage growth and make Britain a world leader in
Industrial and Agricultural Revolution.
Industrial and Agricultural Revolution Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is Revolution? 3. Agricultural Revolution 3.1.Why did it happen? 3.2. Who lost out? 3.3. Who gained? 4. Industrial Revolution 4.1. Why did it happen? 4.2. Who lost out? 4.3. Who gained? 5. Effects of Revolution in Northampton 6. Conclusion . Introduction The objective of this project is to define revolution in a political/social context and to explain in two sections the processes of the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions in England. I have take the opportunity to study the effects of the Industrial revolution in Northampton. This project is written in five main sections. The first will define "revolution". The second section will discuss the Agricultural revolution, providing statistics, and discussing the cause and effect of the Agricultural revolution in England. It will also explain what happened in the Agricultural revolution and what changed, explaining how farming methods changed. The third section will discuss the Industrial revolution and its cause and effects. It will show the effects of factory working on the social structure of English life. The fourth section provides an example of the industrial age in Northampton a town that had made shoes for hundreds of years and how the Industrial revolution effected its shoe making techniques. My conclusion, summarises the project and argues
The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Vu Tran-Nguyen C03, Katie Payerle Final Paper: [MMW5 - WIN04] 3/11/04 The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution During the period of 1760-1850, Great Britain experienced a phenomenon that earned it the title "the workshop of the world" (Ward 22). It was an incident characterized by the rise of machine-powered factories, technological advances, an increase in population with a decline of agricultural population, and the expansion of trade. These are the characteristics of the Industrial Revolution, defined by Arnold Toynbee to be the "substitution of competition for the medieval regulation" (Toynbee 1, 58). Adam Smith envisioned it to be an economy free of government interference, driven by forces of competition and the nature of human greed. Smith's ideas were published in the book The Wealth of Nations, and these ideas manifested to produce the characteristics seen by the Industrial Revolution. Therefore, it is implied, if not apparent, that one of the causes that led to the rise of the Industrial Revolution of 1760-1850 was the manifestation of the ideas Smith put forth to achieve wealth and productivity for a nation. The process of industrialization, however, resulted social effects that concern the standard of living of the working class. Opponents to the Industrial Revolution, dubbed "pessimists" (Doty 5), feel that "the effects of the Industrial
The Industrial Revolution
'The Industrial Revolution' Braidot, Agostina Mores, Evangelina Instituto Superior de Profesorado n° 4 'Ángel Cárcano' E.D.I. - Social Studies III Ms Maggio July 1st, 2010 Introduction A series of revolutions may be well considered to be the precursors to the Industrial Revolution. Optimum conditions were provided by crucial advances and developments in agriculture, technology and transportation for England to become the first industrialised country. Enormous, far-reaching changes characterised this epoch, in which the city life, the social structure and the economy of a country were profoundly transformed and England would never be the same. Well was it named a Revolution. The Industrial Revolution Causes Certainly, the Industrial Revolution marked a before and after in the manufacture of goods in England. Aylett (1985) states that in the first decades of the eighteenth century, families would make goods in their own homes or cottages. This is why this production process was called domestic system or cottage industry. The most important one was the cloth industry. However, as both the cloth British export and the internal market were increasing at the same pace as the population, the domestic system began to prove insufficient to cater for the burgeoning demand. The negative aspect of the cottage industry was that it was time-consuming and ineffective.
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution occurred between the period of 1750 and 1830. The Industrial Revolution was a period of great change. new industries developed rapidly as a result of a number of new inventions and the way in which things were produced, and the way in which people lived and worked, changed rapidly as a result of these developments The Industrial Revolution contained other periods of importance such as the Agriculture Revolution , which was also known as the Agrarian Revolution. Between this period many things changed. The changes included the living conditions of the people, ways of transport, crop rotation, working conditions and times, who got the right to vote and much more. Many inventions were also made in this time. This essay will explain whether or not the Industrial Revolution was an Age of Progress or not and show arguments for both sides. The Industrial Revolution was not an age of progress in the following ways- Living conditions in the towns grew a lot worse. The homes were cramped together very closely and disease and sickness spread around the homes easily. The streets and houses were also very dirty and unclean. The people who lived in the towns were very uncomfortable in the over-cramped houses most household was home to more than 3 people. In 1832 James Phillips Kay, an Edinburgh doctor, published a detailed report on
Was the industrial Revolution a good thing?
Was the industrial Revolution a good thing? The Industrial Revolution was a series of many changes that took place in Great Britain from 1750 to 1900. There is much controversy as to whether the changes were for better or for worse and to whether the Industrial Revolution was a good thing or a bad thing. Some people say that it improved peoples' lives, and that technology and entertainment got better. They say that Britain was made a great, rich and powerful country. Others disagree and say that it was a bad thing and that during the Industrial Revolution there were terrible working and living conditions and many people suffered because of the changes that took place. They also say that it caused a lot of pollution and that it changed many people's lifestyles for the worse. In this essay I will investigate the bad and then the good things that happened to people's lives in Britain between 1750 and 1900 and then make up my own mind as to whether the Industrial Revolution was a good thing or not. In the early 1700's a lot of people worked on the land. Nearly all of the people that didn't work on the farms worked in their homes, spinning or weaving. Most families spun and wove in the same room as they did all of their domestic chores. This room was usually quite full, with the children, adults and even the elderly all helping to produce wool and cloth. This was a good idea,
Does it make sense to use the word ‘Revolution’ to describe the Socio-economic and industrial changes, which occurred in Britain between 1760 and 1830?
Does it make sense to use the word 'Revolution' to describe the Socio-economic and industrial changes, which occurred in Britain between 1760 and 1830? The so-called 'Industrial Revolution' of Britain between 1760 and 1830 poses many questions amongst historians and is a particularly complex issue. Debate surrounds whether or not the industrialisation and the changes it brought about can really be referred to as a revolution. The term Revolution is a complex term and difficult to define. One may argue that in its simplest form a revolution refers to a total transformation, past the point of no return. The term revolution has been applied to the Industrialisation of Britain and the socio-economic and industrial changes it brought with it for many reasons. Deane argues that through industrialisation 'there are certain identifiable changes in the methods and characteristics of economic organisation which, taken together constitute a development of the kind which we would describe as an industrial revolution'.1 However there have been many arguments put forward against that idea that a 'revolution' took place. For example one could argue that Industrialisation was a slower process, and gradual development and therefore not really a revolution. Whatever side one chooses to support it is clear that there were many socio-economic and industrial changes as a result of
