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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
By: Erik Anderson
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THE REVOLUTION
• Began in Britain
• Started in early 1800s and lasted to the late 1900s
•Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the world took part in it.
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URBANIZATION
• The Cottage Industry is a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home.
• There was a migration of people from rural to urban during the Industrial Revolution.
• Living in cities permitted the people to take advantage of the opportunities of proximity, diversity, and marketplace competition.
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AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
• Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
• The Agriculture Revolution began the producing of a larger amount of food. This intern led to a growth in population.
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TEXTILES
• Textiles are a type of cloth or woven fabric.
• Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney.
• Cotton Gin, Flying shuttle, and Carding Machine helped the industry boom.
• Textile Industries was the first commodity.
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STEAM ENGINE
• Invented by Thomas Newcomen.
• Improved by James Watt.
• Invented in 1712.
• It was the first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work
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BESSEMER PROCESS
• A steelmaking process, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig-iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort.
• Invented by Henry Bessemer
• It was important because before the Bessemer process, Britain had no practical method of reducing the carbon content of pig iron.
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PASTEURIZATION
• To subject milk, wine, or other products to a process of partial sterilization involving heat treatment or irradiation, thus making the product safe for a persons consumption and improving its keeping quality.
• Louis Pasteur was a French Chemist who invented a way to stop milk and wine from making people sick through pasteurization.
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THOMAS EDISON
• Some things he invented were the lightbulb, phonograph, and the radio.
• He had 1093 patients.
• “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent....” -Thomas Edison
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ROMANTICISM
• Is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
• William Wordsworth and Mary Shelly were two authors during the time.
• It’s reaction to the Industrial Revolution was very hostile.
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