The Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution
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Prelude: The Population Explosion
• Famine • War• Disease • Stricter quarantine
measures • The elimination
of the black rat
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Further Reasons for Population Growth
• Advances in medicine, such as inoculation against smallpox
• Improvements in sanitation promoted better public health
• An increase in the food supply meant fewer famines and epidemics, especially as transportation improved
The hand of a person infected with smallpox
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The Enclosure Movement
In the second half of the 17th century, the English gentry (landowners) passed the Enclosure Acts, prohibiting peasants’ access to common lands.
The enclosure division of the town of Thetford, England around 1760
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Innovations:The Threshing Machine
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The Seed Drill
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Jethro Tull (1674–1741)
Inventor of the seed drill
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Townshend’s Four-Field System
crop rotation example
Charles “Turnip” Townshend
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Selective Breeding
• Select animals with the best characteristics
• Produce bigger breeds
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Britain Takes the Lead Great Britain’s advantages:
• Plentiful iron and coal• A navigable river system • A strong commercial
infrastructure that provided merchants with capital to invest in new enterprises
• Colonies that supplied raw materials and bought finished goods
• A government that encouraged improvements in transportation and used its navy to protect British trade
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The Importance of Textiles
John Kay invented the flying shuttle
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The Domestic or “Putting Out”
System
• The textile industry was the most important in England
• Most of the work was done in the home
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The Spinning Jenny
Hargreaves’s machine
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The Water Frame
Powering the spinning jenny:• Horses• The water wheel
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Cotton Imported to Britain Between 1701 and 1800
1701 £ 1,985,8681710 715,008 1720 1,972,805 1730 1,545,4721741 1,645,0311751 2,976,6101764 3,870,3921775 4,764,5891780 6,766,6131790 31,447,6051800 56,010,732
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Cotton Goods Exported by Britain 1701 to 1800
1701 £ 23,2531710 5,6981720 16,2001730 13,5241741 20,7091751 45,9861764 200,3541780 355,0601787 1,101,4571790 1,662,3691800 5,406,501
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The Coming of the Railroads:The Steam Engine
• Thomas Newcomen • The steam engine
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James Watt’s Steam Engine
• Condenser• Increased
efficiency
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Trevithick’s Engine
In 1801, Richard Trevithick first attached a steam engine to a wagon. Trevithick’s engine was not successful for moving
people, but he had planted the idea of human train transport.
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Stephenson’s Rocket
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The first widely-used steam train was the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The L&M incited a boom in railway building for the next 20 years. By 1854, every moderately-sized town in England was connected by rail.
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The Growth of the Railroads
Opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Newbiggin Bridge
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The Telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
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British Dominance
Rail lines in England
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Steam-Powered Water Transport
In 1807, Robert Fulton attached a steam engine to a ship called the “Clermont.” The steam engine propelled the ship by
making its paddle wheel turn.
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Steel
Henry Bessemer
The Bessemer converter
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The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was mounted to symbolize Great Britain’s economic,
industrial, and military superiority.
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Labor Conditions
Laborers often worked in dangerous and hazardous
conditions
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Women: The Labor Behind the Industry
19th-century women at work
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Child Labor: Unlimited Hours
Factory children attend a Sunday school
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Child Labor: Dangers
“Scavengers” and “piecers”
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Child Labor: Punishment
• Malnourishment• Beatings• Runaways sent to prison
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Child Labor: Movements to Regulate
• Factory owners argued that child labor was good for the economy and helped build children's characters
• Factory Act of 1833: limited child labor and the number of hours children could work in textile mills
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Trade Unions
Agricultural laborers who had formed a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle were arrested on false charges and sent to the British colony of Australia.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Labor Unions
• Sir Francis Burdett • The 1871 Trade Union Act
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The Chartists
• Political reformers• Chartists wanted the government to adopt a “People’s Charter”• Adopted by national convention of labor organizations in 1838• Influenced the struggle for universal voting rights
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The Luddites
“General Ned Ludd” and the “Army of Redressers”
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The “Peterloo Massacre”
1819
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The New Industrial Class Structure
The New Working ClassThe New Middle Class
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Lower and Middle Class Housing
Tenements
Middle Class Housing
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Travel
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Social Mobility
This illustration of a “typical apartment”
appeared in a Parisian newspaper
in 1845
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Methodism
• John Wesley• “Instant salvation”• Appealed to the working class
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New Economic Theories
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Adam Smith1723–1790
Adam Smith laid the intellectual framework for the concept of the free market
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Thomas Malthus 1766–1834
In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Malthus predicted that the food supply would not meet the needs of the growing population
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David Ricardo 1772–1823
The “Iron Law of Wages”
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Karl Marx 1818–1883
Philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx is regarded by many as the most influential economic and social thinker of the 19th century
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Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
Utilitarianism: “The greatest good for the most people” or “The greatest good over the least pain”
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Robert Owen1771–1858
• Utopian socialist• Founded New Lanark Mills in Scotland as a model cooperative factory • Many industrialists visited New Lanark, and a few adopted aspects of
Owen’s cooperative
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British Industrialization
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France• Couldn’t keep
up with British industrialization
• French Revolution and resulting political chaos hindered economic development
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French Industrialization after 1848
• Government investment• Public spending • Telegraph
A. Braun, Rue de Rivoli, 1855 or after
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Germany
• The Zollverein
• Tariffs
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Electricity: Edison
Thomas Edison
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Electricity: Tesla
In the 1880s, electrical engineer Nicholas Tesla
perfected the principles of alternating current. The
electric coil, or the Tesla coil, keeps the current consistent in
the power lines.
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Cultural Impact: Romanticism
The Romantics glorified the divine power of nature as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s achievement of controlling nature through technology.
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Cultural Impact: The Visual ArtsFrench artist Honore Daumier painted the poor and working classes. In Third-Class Carriage (shown here), he illustrates with great compassion a group of people on a train journey.
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J.M.W. Turner The Fighting
“Temeraire”
Cultural Impact: The Visual Arts
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Cultural Impact: Literature
Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Depiction of a scene from Oliver Twist
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Emile Zola
Cultural Impact: Literature
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Was the Industrial Revolution more beneficial or harmful?
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