Zusammenfassung der Ressource
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- GREAT BRITAIN: 1760- 1840.
- ECONOMIC REVOLUTION: It
changed the way the world
produced goods.
- INVENTIONS: Great period for
improvements in technology.
- 1837: The Telegraph, Samuel Morse
- 1876: The steamship, Brunel
- 1876: The telephone, Graham Bell.
- 1885: The Motor Car, Karl Benz.
- Migration from the countryside to the cities
- From the workshop and the
farm to factories.
- ADVANTAGES
- Use of machines: industry, agriculture, medicine, home.
- New fuels: coal, petroleum...
- New means of transport: train, steam boat.......
- Waterways, roads and railroads.
- Increase in the production: exports, wealth...
- Emergence of new professions: bankers, lawyers.........
- Developments in Science, Medicine....
- DISADVANTAGES
- Pollution, exploitation of natural resources...
- Bad living conditions in cities: shortage of houses, no
facilities.
- Exploitation of workers in factories: child
labour.
- Emergence of Unions.
- Economic gap - Wealth disparity
- SOCIAL CLASSES
- The Aristocracy.
- The middle class
- Upper: bankers, industrial leaders
- Bussinessmen, doctors, lawyers
- Lower: shopkeepers, small traders
- The working class: 80% population
- Top: High skilled workers.
- Semiskilled: carpenters, bricklayers
- Unskilled workers and domestic servants