WHERE IS INDUSTRY

DISTRIBUTED

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C H A P T E R 11 S

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ORIGIN OF INDUSTRY • Industrial Revolution improved industrial

technology and transformed manufacturing •More than just a transformation in industry •New social, economic, and political inventions •Root= industry• Cotton Industry: Home-based

manufacturing • Industrial Revolution= population growth • Most important invention…???

THE STEAM ENGINE • 1769 by James Watt • Steam engine supplied power far more than the watermills,

human, and animal powers

INDUSTRIES IMPACTED BY THE I.R. • Iron • Coal • Transportation• Textiles • Chemicals • Food Processing

IRON• First industry to benefit • Previously the scale of production was small • Process demanded the constant heating and

cooling of iron= time consuming and skilled • Steam engine= practical way to keep ovens

constantly heated

COAL • Was the source of energy for the steam engines

and ovens for iron production • Wood was the previous energy source, but was

becoming scarce • Wood was used for building ships, buildings, furniture,

and heat TRANSPORTATION • Important for diffusing the I.R. • Canals, railroads, • Enabled factories to bring in heavy raw materials and ship out

finished goods

TEXTILES • Transportation from a spread out cotton industry to a

concentrated factory system• Buildings resembled large watermills= mills • New invention of machines • Machines to untangle cotton prior to spinning

CHEMICALS • An industry to bleach and dye cloth

FOOD PROCESSING• Essential to feed factory workers no longer living on farms

INDUSTRIAL REGIONS • Europe • North America • East Asia

EUROPE’S INDUSTRIAL AREAS • United

Kingdom • Rhine-Ruhr

Valley • Mid-Rhine • Po Basin • North eastern

Spain • Moscow

• St. Petersburg • Volga • Urals • Kuznetsk • Donetsk • Silesia

NORTH AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL AREAS • New England • Middle Atlantic • Mohawk Valley • Pittsburgh-Lake Erie • Western Great Lakes • Southern California • Southeastern

Ontario

EAST ASIA’S INDUSTRIAL AREAS

• Japan •China

What do you see in regards to the region with the most industrial areas, the region with the least, and that in the middle?

• Europe= 12• North America= 7• East Asia= 2

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