1. THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
By: Erik Anderson
Monday, November 14, 2011

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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