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Friday 25 February 2011

The Industrial Revolution

Some quotes I found and typed up from: The Industrial Revolution By Stewart Ross, 2008

"At the time of the British Revolution, another important change was taking place - the Agricultural Revolution." (14)
"The most common view is that it was already happening when the Industrial Revolution started, and the two revolutions went on at the same time."
"The Agricultural Revolution involved 3 things: larger farms, an increase in production, and more efficient farming." (14)
"Larger farms left the countryside peopled by farm owners and landless labourers. As the population was increasing, man landless labourers. As the population was increasing, many landless labourers could not get jobs. They went to look for work in the towns, helping make up the workforce in the new mills and factories." (14)

"One of the major industries of the Industrial Revolution was the manufacture of cotton cloth. It was based in Lancashire, where cotton could be easily worked in the damp atmosphere."

Trade was improved through the building of 'turnpikes' - roads kept in good order by charging travellers a toll, "by 1750s most of the main roads out of London were turnpikes.", Lochs and the first canal in 1757.

"The textile industry benefited from Lewis Paul's machine for carding (combing) raw cotton and from John Kay's flying shuttle, which speeded up weaving." (16)

Cloth production was one of the first industries to get caught up in the Industrial Revolution.
"In 1750 the British textile industry was using about 60 million tons of raw wool and 2.5 million tons of raw cotton a year. The figures for 1800 were about 100 million tons of raw wool and over 50 million tons of raw cotton." (20)
"after Richard Arkwright's construction of a water-driven spinning machine (the water frame, 1769), the cloth industry began slowly to become factory-based."(20)

"until the Industrial Revolution most industrial processes, from weaving cloth to making guns, were carried out in workshops or people's homes. From about 1750, some industries (led by textiles and iron) began to switch from small-scale production to large-scale factory (or mill) production."(22)
"The mills and factories of the early Industrial Revolution were generally big brick buildings, some many storeys tall. They were built near a source of power for driving their machinery." At first they were next to a fast-flowing stream or river, then when steam power was more common they were built near coal fields.(22)
the Industrial Revolution affected the north and west of the country more than the south and east because they had reserves of coal and other minerals for support.
"Cotton mills were based in Lancashire, close to the port of Liverpool where cotton arrived from the USA...Because workers needed to live near their places of employment, rows of small houses were put up around the mills, factories and mines. These house were often badly built, with poor water supplies and drains." (22)

 I don't know how much you'll want to use but it's a start.

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