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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

1780-1850

FOUNDATIONS OF INDUSTRY

  • Commercial Revolution
  • Cottage Industry
  • Scientific Revolution
  • Capitalism

FOUNDATIONS OF INDUSTRY

  • Commercial Revolution
  • Cottage Industry
  • Scientific Revolution
  • Capitalism

COTTAGE INDUSTRY

Rural Industry

COTTAGE INDUSTRY

  • Merchants contracted with rural families
  • Paid by the piece for finished wool
  • 4 to 5 spinners needed for 1 weaver
  • Circumvented guild laws in the towns

INVENTIONS

  • 1733 John Kay: Flying Shuttle
  • 1764 James Hargreaves: Spinning Jenny
  • 1769 Richard Arkwright: Water Frame
  • 1779 Samuel Crompton: Spinning Mule

ENGLAND

1/2 textiles, 2/3 coal, 1/2 iron

AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Feeding the Factories

TECHNIQUES AND INVENTIONS

  • Crop rotation
  • New World crops
  • Enclosure Movement
  • Improved plough, fertilizer, seed drill
  • National Market and Transportation

IMPORTANCE OF GOVT.

Stability and Legal Framework

STABILITY AND PROTECTIONISM

  • House of Commons - Middle class power
  • Successful wars against France
  • Navy and Colonial Empire
  • Calico Acts - stopped importation of cotton from India
  • Corn Laws - high tariffs on imported grain

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

  • James Watt - Steam Engine
  • Metallurgy - Iron
  • Robert Fulton - Steamboat
  • George Stephenson - Locomotive
  • John McAdam - Paved Roads

CONTINENTAL INDUSTRIALIZATION

Catching up after Napoleon, 1815

THE CONTINENT

  • Led by banks - Credit Mobilier in France
  • Free trade zone in Ger. - Zollverein
  • Protective tariffs
  • Equipmemt and skilled worker laws

Curt Fritts

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