the industrial revolution 1780-1850
The industrial revolution brought many changes in the mid-18th century to about mid-19th century, throughout this time period producing goods became more efficient and more affordable for the common man. However, with these benefits also came the price of dangerous, under paying jobs in which the workers would work 12-16 hour shifts with little to no break. The kickstart to the industrial revolution was the discovery of fossil fuels, and switching from manpower and wood to fossil fuels. This helped to develop the steam engine which could be used for transporting goods with both ships and by locomotive, this then progressed into a faster turnover for companies.
Animal and muscle
The major energy source before the use of fossil fuels was animal power and manpower for things like farming, and for manufacturing grain
waterwheel
The waterwheel was used in places with a fast moving water source for flour mills, grain mills, and lumber mills
Biomass, in this case wood, was used to power steam engines before coal was primarily used. However, wood was heavy and bulky to transport also wood took a long time to replenish.
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biomass
Manufacturer buys raw materials .
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Manufacturer gives raw materials to workers at their house and they make required goods as said by manufacturer.
domestic Worker gives finished product back to manufacturer, the manufacturer pays the worker a set fee.
system
The manufacturer sells product to the public and gets profit
Cycle then goes back to beginning and manufacturer starts over again
moving fossil fuels to
Fossil fuels are organic matter made from the remains of flora and fauna that have been pressurized and heated in the earth for thousands of years. Petroleum, coal, and natural gas are the main fossil fuels. Steam trains used coal as a substitute for lack of charcoal and wood, coal could be used in its raw form found in seams near the surface that could be easily mined. Fossil fuels quicly became the most important natural resource the world had to offer in the eyes of the industry.
population
Due to the discovery of fossil fuels the population grew at a very exponential rate, because there was a surplus of goods and a surplus of time. People didn’t have to grow their own food or make their own clothes so that portion of the daily laor was taken out. This startling increase in population continues to grow as the everyday person continues to move to the city instead of living on farms. Once it becomes easier to live, the population grew even more.
enviromental
The industrial revolution started an age of pollution as well, it wasn’t discovered until a few hundred years later that factories and the fossil fuels they use have a negative impact on the environment. By the time this discovery was made, the damaged had been done and it’d proving to be almost irreversible. The industrial revolution will set the environmental tone for the next few hundred years.
effects of Fossil Fuels
great-britain railroad lines 157 (in kilometers) 1850
austria-hungary 1830 0 russia 501 0 Germany 0 620 italy 0 france 31
Coal and transportaton
9,787 1,357
5,856
2,915
Once fossil fuels were discovered and the advancement of the steam locomotive due to Thomas Newcomen was completed, coal dominated the transportation industry. Coal was used for locomotives which could travel across the country at exponentially faster rates than other modes of transportation like horses. This boom in transportation would ultimately be the turning point the of the industrial revolution. Without the steam locomotive goods could be produced at a fast rate but they could not be distributed at a fast rate destroying the whole purpose.
Coal mining
With the piston-driven steam engine being released in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, a device that would be used by both coal miners to drive coal to the surface from deep veins and to power locomotives across the country. Coal mining was essential to the industrial revolution because it was abundant, cheap, could be used in its raw form, and allowed for faster production. Coal mining provided money, provided jobs, and provided an new outlook for the future. In a way it was seen as a god sent, for coal would become the backbone of the economy but in doing so it would destroy the backbone of the coal miner.
Child labor in coal mines
With the demand for coal skyrocketing with every passing day and families growing poorer and poorer by the minute, the solution was seemingly simple as desperate times call for desperate measures. Families if they were poor enough would send their children to work at the earliest age possible, and the children would work wherever they could, often in the coal mines. Coal mines were extremely unsafe at first, the ceilings were held up with wooden supports and often the rooms could get so narrow that only children could go into them. The air quality was next to nothing as there was no ventilation and they would and could spend around 12 hours underground.
james watt
Scottish inventor and engineer that made improvements to the steam engine, these improvements to the steam engine would help push the revolution forward and be the cause for the efficiency gained through the revolution. His improvements made it possible to use coal even when the engine was far away from the coal-fields.
The industrial revolution as a whole brought a new generation that would be the basis for the next few hundred years, without the industrial revolution as a society we would not be where we are today. However, the sources of energy that came forth during the industrial revolution ultimately was the thing that let all of the other parts of industrial revolution flourish
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