Industrial Revolution - In Easy Terms

• England: Coal, iron, people looking for more jobs, surrounded by water = Start to Industrial Revolution

• Technology: Instead of tedious human labor, steam technology manufactured things at a larger scale and faster.

• Rural Cooperatives: Rural communities banding together to collectively market their products.

  • Why? More people shifted to urban workstyles, which meant the labor of the rural areas needed to make more money, thus they worked TOGETHER.

• James Watt: Watt (Energy —> Steam). Used steam to drive pistons. People no longer needed to use the water frame (Water energy).

• Richard Arkwright: Water frame (Before Steam powered things), used water from streams to drive spinning wheels. (Textiles)

• Thomas Malthus:

  • POOR:

  • P - Population grows exponentially

  • O: Outpaces the food supply

  • O: Only fewer births

  • R - Resources will only remain enough if growth is controlled.

• Charles Darwin: Theory of evolution, Survival of the Fittest , Natural Selection.

• Pasteur the Germ buster!

• James Hargreaves: Spinning jenny. Jenny And James

First Industrial Revolution: Britain and the foundation of water powered things and people getting more urbanized jobs.

Second Industrial Revolution: Steel, gas, and other things ALSO spreading to different parts of the world.