Industrial Revolution Intro and Inventions

Industrial Revolution

Reasons Industrial Revolution Started in G.B.

• Resources: Exposure to metals and wood.

• Size: G.B. was running out of farming space = forced to adapt

• Capitalism = philosophy that government does NOT regulate economy

Start of a different revolution

• About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. A little later they invented locomotives. Productivity began a spectacular climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain had become the workshop of the world. From Britain the Industrial Revolution spread gradually throughout Europe and to the United States.

  
  

Multiple Select

Check off everything that is TRUE:

• Invention of locomotives (railroad trains).

• Invention of steam engine to drive machines.

• Inventions were created to process cotton into cloth.

• Industrial Revolution started in the United States and spread to Europe

Mass Production

• Most products people in the industrialized nations use today are turned out swiftly by the process of mass production, by people (and sometimes by robots) working on assembly lines using power-driven machines. 

Multiple Choice

What process allowed for mass production?

• Market Line

• Machine line

• Machine Assembly

• Assembly Line

Most important Changes

• (1) the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools.

• (2) the use of steam, and later of other kinds of power, in place of the muscles of human beings and of animals.

• (3) the adoption of the factory system.

Multiple Select

Check of the most important changes from the revolution.

• Invention of machines to replace hand tools.

• The use of steam as power to replace manual power.

• Adoption of Factory System

• Invention of the wind-powered car

James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny

Up until that time, a craftsperson would operate a spinning wheel that could only spin one thread of yarn at a time. It was a laborious process, and spinners could not keep up with the demand. The spinning jenny had one hand-powered wheel but eight spindles. Thus, a person could create eight strands of yarn simultaneously. Later versions of the spinning jenny had even more spindles. These large machines were put in factories, where fewer, less-skilled workers produced more yarn.

Multiple Choice

What was the benefit of the spinning jenny?

• Spun more yarn which was used to create clothes and blankets.

• Steam powered machines to work without manual labor

• Water powered electricity where the jenny spun from the movement of water to light up a room

Power Loom

• Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor and is remembered today for inventing the power loom along with other devices important to the textile industry in England. 

•  A loom is a device that is used to weave together threads in order to produce a fabric.

Multiple Choice

What is significant about the power loom?

• Turns cotton into yarn.

• Uses water to create electricity.

• Weaves threat together to produce fabric (clothes)

Steam Engine

• It is sometimes said that James Watt got the idea for a steam engine while still a boy, watching steam lift the lid of his mother’s teakettle.

• Watt’s engine was very successful in pumping. For turning wheels in factories!

Purposes of Steam Engine

• Powered drains that removed water from coal mines!

• Powered trains that moved goods at the fastest pace ever!

• Powered machines that turned cotton/wool into clothes!

Multiple Select

Check off everything the Watt's Steam Engine was used for:

• Powered machines that turned wool/cotton into clothes.

• Powered locomotives or trains that transported goods and people at the fastest pace in history.

• Powered drains that removed water from coal mines!

Multiple Choice

Based on the two previous pictures, what kind of revolution are we facing today?

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Technological Revolution

• Hydro Revolution

Open Ended

What are two things you learned about the industrial revolution?