Industrial Revolution

GermanyUnification

GermanyUnification

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

1750s

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

1698

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

James Hargreaves

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

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.

1698

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

1750s

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

1769

Richard Arkwright established the first factory

1785

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

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

"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