INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

1. GREAT BRITAIN: 1760- 1840.

2. 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.

3. 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....

4. 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

5. 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