The Industrial Revolution

WHY DID IT START IN GREAT BRITAIN?

1.LABOR2.RAW MATERIALS3.ENTREPRENUERS4.TRANSPORTATION5.CAPITAL6.MARKETS7.GOVERNMENT SUPPORT8. ???? NAPOLEON ????

The Cottage Industry

The Domestic Industry or Putting-Out System

Entrepreneur provides raw materials and equipment

Rural Worker is paid by how much they produce

Rural Workers were trying to supplement their income after Enclosure Laws

The Cottage Industry

Effects of the Cottage Industry

The Entrepreneur prospered not the Rural Worker

The demand for cloth increased more rapidly than the supply

To meet demand it gave way to the factory system

The Evolution of

The Textile Industry

The Flying Shuttle1733 – invented by John Kay (Great Britain)

Doubled the output of hand weavers

The Water Frame

1769, Richard Arkwright, Great Britain

The Spinning Jenny

1774 – James Hargreaves, Great Britain

The Spinning Mule

1779, Samuel Crompton, Great Britain

1785, Edmund Cartwright, Great Britain

The Power Loom

1793, Eli Whitney, United States of America

The Cotton Gin

THE AGE OF STEAM

Newcomen Steam Engine

1717, Thomas Newcomen, Great Britain

1769, James Watt, Scotland

Wat t ' s S team Eng ine

1807, Robert Fulton, American

The Clermont

Rocket16mph Manchester to Liverpool

1830, George StephensonGreat Britain

Living Conditions

of the Industrial Revolution

The Crystal Palace, 1850Exhibition Hall - London

3 London Peddlers

Cleanliness is in the Eye of the Beholder1832

18481853

1866

LONDON WATER

DAVID BYWATER

HANNAH BROWN

SAMUEL DOWNE

CHARLES ABERDEEN

ELIZA MARSHALL