Agricultural Revolution - Increasing food production, the British Population could have food at lower prices, less effort and buying manufactured goods.
Banks were able to finance new factories, changes in technology to help the cotton industry to produce greater quantities with new machinery.
A more efficient transports system with new canals, roads and railways.
Agricultural (Farming) changes
Increased availability of farmland by new methods of planting.
A favourable climate with mild summers ideal conditions for crop cultivation.
More lifestock and horses able to plough the fields.
Improved crop yield to be able to grow new crops of potato and maize.
Inventions
1) Spinning Jenny 1764 - made by James Hargreaves - A spinning machine to make thread.
2)Stream Engine 1712 - made by Thomas Newcomen - A steam powered engine for machinery, trains and ships.
3)Power Loom 1784 - made by Richard Arkwright - A machine to weave cloth
4)Batteries 1800 - made by Alessandro Volta
5)Telegraph 1837 - made by Wheatstone
6)Lightbulb 1806 - Thomas Edison
Child Labour in Factories
When the industrial revolution happened, new factories and mines employed more children as they could get them to do easy jobs. The average age child worker was 8 and a half years old when they started working in factories, mines and as chimney sweeps. The pay was very small and they worked in dirty and dangerous places for long hours.
Conditions in Towns
There was a huge growth in cities in Britain. Many people moved to the towns for jobs, so houses were built quickly and cheaply. Terraced houses were built with no gardens, they had no bathrooms, toilets or running water. Sanitation and hygiene was very poor, with the waste being thrown out into the courtyards and night men collecting and disposing them. Cholera, typhus and typhoid epidemics was the greatest fear.
Transport
Three main types of transportation increased during the revolution. Transporting heavy products like coal and iron, on the water, was the cheapest way, so canals were widened and deepened for the barges. The steamboat was invented to carry material across the Atlantic Ocean. Roads were improved for easier transportation for horse drawn carriages. The steam locomotive was invented to allow goods to move on the railways quicker.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
