Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution The IR started when

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution The IR started when people stopped making products at home and started making products faster, cheaper, and better in factories.

For hundreds of years there was very little change in technology in Europe. People lived and worked with the same simple tools that their ancestors had used. . Little had changed since the time the ancient Romans lived 1, 500 years before.

Cottage Industries Candles lit homes, animals provided help for transportation, and craftsmen used their skills to make hand-constructed goods in their homes or small shops.

Even books were written and illustrated by hand. Look at the beautiful writing and illustrations of the pages in the books on the next slides. They are from the Book of Words

In the mid-1700 s life began to change in Europe. The Industrial Revolution began. This was a revolution of inventiveness. The change started slowly, but rapidly began to spread throughout the world.

The age of the machine had begun and life would NEVER be the same!

Many new inventions helped get the Industrial Revolution started Including:

Spinning Jenny Advances in Textiles The Spinning Jenny spun thread faster

Cotton gin • Eli Whitney’s cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton saving time and labor.

Steam Engine • The steam engine could be used as a transportation device in trains and ships. • Or to run entire factories that made products.

Steam engine

Factory system Factories were built near areas that had natural resources where power machines could make goods

Advances in Transportation

Railroads • With the invention of the steam engine, trains and railroads became an efficient way to move people and products across the country.

Transcontinental RR • The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.

• The transcontinental RR met in Utah

In addition to trains, ships could also move goods more quickly with the new engines.

Canals • Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water. • Canals shortened the routes between ports. • The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Erie Canal 1825

Panama Canal • The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

Telegraph Advances in Communication • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

Telephone • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Light Bulb • Thomas Edison invented the light bulb which allowed factories to work at night.

Motion picture camera Edison’s inventions

Phonograph

Development of Cities Workers from farms came to the factories to work and live. Modern cities began to develop around the new factories.