The Revolution that Changed the Future Generations: 3D Gallery

Great Britain jump starts the Industrial Revolution

Many events in the mid-1700s had begun advancing towards complex machines for an increase of mass production. The change in farming fields had made the first agricultural revolution around 11,000 years ago, where people had started to use animal domestication and farming. In the 1700s, British farmers have been inspired by the Dutch by their ways of agriculture, and expanded on a few of Dutch’s experiments.

James Watt, the Father of the Industrial Revolution

James Watt was a Scottish engineer from the 1700s and early 1800s. He began his intrigue in machinery when he repaired a Newcomen steam engine, already sparking up the idea to improve the machine. In 1777, Watt’s first machine was made, starting a new era of power-generating machines. This was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution.

Enhancement of the textile industry increases mass production in materials

The Industrial Revolution had first hit Britain’s largest production industry- textiles. The raw material cotton had made its popular demand in the 1600s, first discovered as cotton cloth imported from India. Examples of the textile machines include John Kay’s flying shuttle in 1733, James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright’s water frame in 1769, and Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793. These machines were made for efficiency.

Urbanization is brought upon by the Industrial Revolution, and it has come for the worst for America and Europe

While this revolution had brought over innovation and mechanization for the time being, it had also brought over social classes and other harmful working places for others. These work areas were unsafe, unsanitary, overcrowded, and was the shelter for poverty. This led to urbanization, the movement of people to cities, which demanded the changes in manufacturing and manufacturing goods that were produced. However, there was limited space to choose from, and diseases such as cholera had spread onto the city streets.

Social classes have emerged, with different status in each to boot

The concept of social classes have been created because of the Industrial Revolution. The Middle Class benefited the most from the industrialization, operating factories, mines, railroads, and other factories, along with the surplus of wealth and comfortable lifestyle they live in. The working class is the majority of the population in cities that are laborers struggling to survive and get by in the streets as they work in harsh conditions and were often getting diseases such as cholera from unsanitary water mixed with rotting waste and garbage.

The lifestyle behind the worker’s time in a factory or mine proves to be rather suffering and dangerous

While there was a rapid pace on the growth of industrialization, the harsh working conditions for those in the factories and mines have also been growing at a rapid pace. Working hours were a long, grueling 12 to 16 hours a day, six or seven days a week. Injuries and illnesses were not uncommon when it came to the work setting of factories and mines, mainly from the air of the area the workers are inhaling whenever they are to work there and in loss of limbs in the process of work accidents. Workers could only take breaks by the permission of the owners in the line of work.

Child labor was seen as a good future from the employers’ point of view, but reformers think the opposite

Children between ages 5 to 8 have been hired to work in mining and textile during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Employers had thought that giving these children a job because of them being nimble-fingered and quick-moving, so that they could get the machines up and working again once the problem would be eliminated. Reformers thought this was a harsh form of labor, especially for the child workers working in the mines, working in the dark to retrieve iron and coal by pushing around the coal carts.

Women at work get the short end of the stick in the Industrial Revolution

It was a large burden for women to work in the factories and mines. They were often working at low paying jobs, and even then they’re paid as half as much as the workers that are men in the same workplace. Feminists believed that having women work is a miracle that they get to work at all, since it would improve self reliance, and adaption to the work area. Middle class women find offense to other women in the working class because they think women should stick to working at home with a lesser risk of injuries and sickness.

The conflicts between the social classes of Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism have posed many problems in terms of equality

In terms of how society should run, there are three different points of view. Capitalism is more on earning profit through competition and takes the needs of certain materials and oneself’s status to their advantage. Socialism focuses on a more equal society by using cooperation to give the lower classes what they need as the higher classes have to give up some of their resources in order for equality to be in place. Communism tends to eradicate the higher and lower class system in order for equality to be placed well in society.

The blessing and curse of the Industrial Revolution’s results

Since the 1800s, it’s been flopped back and forth whether people thought the Industrial Revolution was really considered a blessing or a curse. Early times, it presented many hardships for the working class due to the harmful working conditions and low wages. As time passed by, the era had improved on the wages, hours, and working conditions, and men eventually got the power to vote, enabling their political power. Parliaments for this era had helped this era widen the opportunities of different occupations.

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The Revolution that Changed the Future Generations