Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution began in the late eighteenth century and continued in the early twentieth century. It all began in the Great Britain.  This revolution changed everything like how the world changed to produce goods because this revolution was an economic one. Even the people went from being agriculture to industrial, this means that the farmers moved from the farms and from the countryside. Although the farmers moved to the industrial world it wasn’t that easy to find an appropriate job. In those days even the children worked because they never had the opportunity for education. And they were the ideal employees to work in factories and mills because they were small so they fit easily between the machinery.

But during this time there were new achievements in technology such as the invention of Abraham Darby that is the pig iron that smelted with coke but the biggest invention was the steam engine. New fuel such as the coal and petroleum were used for this steam engine. Another invention was the telegraph and this was used to communicate across the ocean easier and faster. Although there were many achievements there were consequences impacting the world. The industries were releasing huge amount of pollution into the atmosphere and waste in the river and soil.

References:

Industrial Revolution — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. 2013. Industrial Revolution — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution. [Accessed 03 April 2013].

Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution. [Accessed 03 April 2013].