Painting Harvesting Scene by Pieter Brueghel depicting pre-industrial village life.
• Farming in the Middle Ages• Disadvantages of traditional farming• Forces of change
Crop rotation of four crops on a manor
• Enclosure movement• Crop rotation• Other discoveries
• Effects of the Agricultural Revolution
Engraving of a cottage industry scene from Ireland in 1783.
• Mercantilism and rising demand• Cottage Industry
• Capitalism
• Effects of the cottage industry
Mule-spinning machines making cotton cloth in an English textile mill in 1834
• Textile industry invented
• Rise of the factory• Effects of textile factories in Britain
James Watt’s steam pumping engines at the pit head of an English coal mine in the 1790’s
• Need for energy• How the steam engine works
• Effect of the steam engine
Men pouring steel ingots (bars) at Copenhagen Denmark in 1885
• Need for iron
• Need for coal
• Effect of iron and coal
Stephenson’s Rocket winning the Manchester-Liverpool race in 1829.
• Need for better transportation
• Inventions
• Effects of Railroads
The Triumph of Steam and Electricity; from the Illustrated London News, 1897
• Geography
• Government
• Social factors
• Colonial empire
• Advantages of Industrialization
Why Britain Led the Industrial Revolution