The Beginnings of
Industrialization
by
Brooke Gibson
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The Beginnings of
Industrialization
Setting the Stage
The industrial revolution
began in the 1700s.
Refers to machine made
goods that began in England
Inventions Spur
Industrialization
In 1733 a machinist named John Kay made
a shuttle that sped back and forth on
wheels
This machine doubled the amount
of work a weaver could do in a
day
Wool, linen and cotton were
the first industries to be
transformed
Around 1764 a textile worker James
Hargreaves invented a spinning wheel he
named after his daughter
The spinning wheel allowed the
spinner to work eight threads at a
time
In 1769 Richard Arkwright
invented the water frame
This machine used waterpower from
rapid streams to drive spinning
wheels
Englands cotton came from
plantations in the American south in
the 1790s
In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin,
which multiplied the amount of cotton that
could be cleaned
In 1790 cotton production skyrocketed
from 1.5 million to 85 million pounds in
1810
Industrial Revolution Begins
in Britain
Jethro Tull was on of the first
scinetific farmers
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In about 1701 Jethro came up
with an invention called the seed
drill
This allowed farmers to sow seeds
in well-spaced rows at specific
depths
Crop rotation proved to be one of the
best developments by the scientific
farmers.
In the 1700s Robert Barkwell increased his
mutton output by allowing only his best
sheep to breed.
Industrialization is the process of
developing machine production of
goods.
Growing overseas trade, economic
prosperity, and a climat of progress led to
the increased demand for goods
Britain had all of the factors of production,
which are the resources needed to produse
goods and services that the industrial
revolution required
Improvements in
Transportation
In 1765 James Watt figured out a
way to make the steam engine work
faster
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In 1774 watt joined a buisinessman named
Matthew Boulton who was an entrepreneur
and paid Watt to build better engines.
Robert Fulton built a steamboat called the
clermont, which made its first successful
trip in 1807
In the 1800s John Mcadam equipped road
beds with a layer of large stones for
drainage
The Railway Age Begins
In 1804 Richard Trevithick won a bet by
hauling ten tons of iron over nearly ten miles
of track in a steam driven locomotive.
In 1825 the railroad opened
