The industrial revolution - Les 1

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The Industrial Revolution

Main questions you should be able to answer today:

1. What was the industrial Revolution?

2. How did factory workers live?

The Industrial Revolution

The industrial revoltution began aroudn 1750 in England.

Why did it happen there and not someplace else?

1. Natural resources

2. Many harbours

3. Interested in technology and progress

4. -->

The Industrial Revolution

4. New techniques in the agriculture. 

Surplus of food --> population grew. 

Need for clothes. 

But making them by hand was not fast enough. 

The Industrial Revolution

The Spinning Jenny increased cloth production by 8 times!!

 And later the English found a new energy source:

steam power!

Steam machines > coal 

England had a lot of coal. 

The Industrial Revolution

Invention of steam power > new steam machines 

Put in factories > faster production

The Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial revolution manual labour was replaced by machines and caused a radical change. 

More inventions

Life in an Industrial city

Hard life: 

Low wages, poor housing, cold, overcrowded streets, no toilets or clean water, it stank!

Open sewers and garbage > diseases

Many people died or got sick. 

What to do now?

Work on your HW:

Summary of paragraph 1

1. What was the industrial Revolution?

2. How did factory workers live?