Industrial Revolution

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GermanyUnification

________- the process of being united or made into a whole.

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1750s

________- industrial revolution, power to drive new materials began when in Europe started to use coal and steam.

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1698

________- Thomas Savery desigined the first steam engine to pump water out of coal mine.

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James Hargreaves

1764- spinning jenny- one of the new inventions for spinning yarn and making clothes → ________.

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India

The industrial revolution People earned wealth through mainly agriculture- 98 % of people For 1000s of years Modern times Stock market, investing, land Only 2 % of Austrians are farmers Why- an industrial revolution within agriculture occurred big time (aka technological revolution) Areas such as Asia; ________, China, had large amounts of land as well as, therefore more farmland India had the and still has the second- largest population More countries- France, Russia, Ukraine (said to have the best farmland) The industrial revolution surprisingly began in Britain.

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1698

Thomas Savery desigined the first steam engine to pump water out of coal mine

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1750s

industrial revolution, power to drive new materials began when in Europe started to use coal and steam

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1769

Richard Arkwright established the first factory

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1785

new invention, water-powered loom, pioneering mass production techniques that soon spread to other industries Until 1800s people used biomass fuels eg

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Developing transport networks

CanalsSeries of canals → built throughout Britain and Europe to link ports and rivers → industrial areas and cities Provided cheap, reliable way of transporting heavy goods and materials over long distances Developed quickly → abundance of rivers and proximity of large cities to the sea Built in north and centre of England Linking ports in → liverpool London Bristol Industrial Areas of → Birmingham, manchester and leeds Funding → rich businessmen → y

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"the costs of German unification" 1871 → became unified country Prussia → industrialised occurred initially Most powerful of the independent German states Access to rich coal and iron ore deposits of the Rhineland Prussian quickly established a thriving iron + steel industry 1835 → first German railways were built in 1850 → half as many railways as Germany + twice as much as France 1871 → after unification → Expanded industrial production 1900s → by the beginning of the 20th century, producing more steel than Britain The United States in industrialised Cotton → 1 cash-crop in US Spread quickly in Nor amer 1783 → following independence front Britain Set about developing their own industries → by innovations of their own 1793 → Samuel Slater → technology for water-powered textiles production 1794 → Eli Witney

cotton gin + machines or separating seeds from raw cotton 1800s → early 19th century → American inventors eg

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