Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Industrial Revolution
- Domestic System
- Clothier buys wool from farmer
- Villagers turn wool into cloth
- Work however long as long as they meet there deadline
- Clothier collects cloth
- Cloth gets died in wee!
- Inventions
- Flying Shuttle - John Kay - 1733
- Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves - 1767
- Water Frame - Richard Arkwright - 1769
- Can't fit in houses so factories are made to fit them in
- Mining
- Chalk Damp - suffocation
- Fire Damp - methane explosion
- Caving In
- Flooding
- Miner - Digs Coal
- Trapper - Opens trapdoor for carts
- Bearer - Puts coal into wagons
- Drawer - brings coal to surface
- Bell, Drift Shaft
- Factories
- Noisy so people become deaf
- Children made to clean machinery, get tangled in it
- Beaten up and forced to work most of the day
- No Safety
- People move from countryside to towns
- Near a water supply for steam; river
- Robert Peel the nice guy
- Canal or train-track nearby for transporting goods
- Factory owner lives on the site of factory in his large house
- Transport
- Canals
- Some slow, some fast.
- Could dry up in hot summers
- Cheap to make and use
- Transport heavy/delicate goods
- Quicker than some roads
- Freeze in winter
- Not for human transport
- Rail
- Rainhill Trials
- Won by George Stephenson's Rocket
- George Stephenson developed:
- Liverpool - Manchester
- Stockton - Darlingon
- Navvies work on traintracks
- Road
- John McAdams - added tar to roads hence TarMac
- Thomas Telford also designed roads
- Better roads needed because goods got broken in wagons
- Turnpike Trust - businessmen who own a road
- Turnpike Road - road owned by Turnpike Trust
- Toll - fee paid to us a road
- Toll Keeper - person who collects the toll
- Town Life
- Cholera
- Men who drank beer, didn't get cholera because they didn't drink water
- Spreads through dirty water
- Back-to-back houses
- 4 families per house; sometimes a 5th in the cellar
- Near factory
- Overcrowded
- Up to 50 people use toilet