Industrial revolution?

Question

why was england involved with the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

That's where everything in the IR started. The first factory was made there. The 1st item to be made in a factory was clothing. The Spinning Jenny was invented there. You also have Samuel Slater who came from there to America to start his own factory called Slater's Mill. He is the father of the American Factory.

Answer 2

It started in Britain. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.

Textiles - Cotton spinning using Richard Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves's Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule (a combination of the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame). This was patented in 1769 and so came out of patent in 1783. The end of the patent was rapidly followed by the erection of many cotton mills. Similar technology was subsequently applied to spinning worsted yarn for various textiles and flax for linen.

Steam power - The improved steam engine invented by James Watt was initially mainly used for pumping out mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power machines. This enabled rapid development of efficient semi-automated factories on a previously unimaginable scale in places where waterpower was not available.

Iron founding - In the Iron industry, coke was finally applied to all stages of iron smelting, replacing charcoal. This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping (for which a patent expired in 1786) or puddling (patented by Henry Cort in 1783 and 1784).

These represent three 'leading sectors', in which there were key innovations, which allowed the economic take off by which the Industrial Revolution is usually defined. This is not to belittle many other inventions, particularly in the textile industry. Without some earlier ones, such as spinning jenny and flying shuttle in the textile industry and the smelting of pig iron with coke, these achievements might have been impossible. Later inventions such as the power loom and Richard Trevithick's high pressure steam engine were also important in the growing industrialisation of Britain.

In the early 18th century, British textile manufacture was based on wool which was processed by individual artisans, doing the spinning and weaving on their own premises. This system is called a cottage industry.

The Agricultural Revolution

The Textile Industry

The Search for New Power Sources

The Development of Canals in Britain

Roads and railways

Steamships

Iron and Steel Manufacture

Working Conditions

Urban Conditions

Industrialisation in Europe

The Second Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution and Warfare

Social Development in the Industrial Revolution

direct links to the above are here:

http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapte...

Lots more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_...