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Industrial Revolution
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History - Factory Life Mind Map on Industrial Revolution, created by alasdairmacdonald on 24/05/2013.
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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
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