The Industrial Revolution

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England Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was in the period of the 18th to the 19th century where many big changes took place in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology. The revolution originally started off in England and at that time we were the ones who led the rest of the world in to a new era of technology. At the beginning of the revolution in England in the 1750s all industries were small scale and the main one was farming. However nearer the 1900s mining for coal had significantly taken over all the other industries as we had a great supply of it here in England. England was dominating the rest of the world in design and technology so therefore we became a rich country as we exported many of our homeland goods.

Between 1750 and 1900 there was a massive change in the way farming worked. In the early stages of the industrial revolution they used horses to help plow and seed the field where the crops were to be grown. This method of farming was advanced later on in the revolution. There each area of land would be split into four sections. The crop that was grown on each field would be rotated so that different nutrients would be taken from the land. In the first year turnips or another kind of root crop would be grown; in the second year barley was grown in the field; in the third year clover or a grass crop was grown and in the fourth year wheat was grown in the field (wheat could be sold for a profit). This was a type of farming method called the Norfolk rotation method which was created in the late 1800s. This method of farming grew rapidly over England as it was so effective.

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Nearer the end of the 1800s machines were introduced to farming which was a great step forward in the industrial world as it became very time efficient. There were two inventions that were at the core of the agricultural revolution, they were the Seed Drill and the Horse Hoe also known as the Gernhard. They were both invented by Jethro Tull (1674-1741).  The seed drill was an invention that allowed seeds to be easily planted deep into the earth instead of on top where many previous planted seeds had been washed away or otherwise lost. In general it ...

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