The Industrial Revolution started in the 1700s and many things were invented, that made many changes in the society. Before the Industrial Revolution, almost all production took place in every single family. It went from brutal economy to monetary economy. During the industrial revolution, mostly all production took place in factories or mills. They invented machines that could do the job for them instead of each made what they need by themselves, in that was it was faster and less expensive to produce. However when the machines took over the production it made many people very mad because their lost their jobs.
During the Industrial Revolution it was invented many things that could help factories with their production. A man called James Watt invented the steam engine that could run machines instead of using workers to run the machines. In the 1800s the most of the factories started using steam in their factories, that was much more convenient because they could have less people working there. Another invention was the Spinning Jenny, which was a spinning machine that could spin as much as 25 people at the time. The spinning jenny was very necessary for the textile factories. A man called Stephenson invented the steam powered engine; the engine …show more content…
could run machines by boiling water.
Many children worked in factories or mines and some worked outside washing the street or sweep the chimneys.
The children worked for 12-14 hours a day and they did not have much time for education. The children worked very hard and they does not make that much money. The factory act that came in 1833 was a law that says that children mostly could work 9 hours a day. In the 1800s, they used a lot of steam to power trains, boats and machines. To make steam they needed coal to boil the water, so it was very important that children worked in the coalmines, children that worked in the coalmine was very small, because it was very cramped in there and it was easier for them to manoeuvre in the
coalmines.
The working conditions was not the best during the Industrial Revolution, they worked in dirty factories, mines or in the chimneys. It was much accident while working, they could lose body parts and many could fall in to the machine and die. The machines in the factories emitted smoke that was dangerous to breath. They had very short brakes and were very hungry while working. It was also many moving parts in the factories, so if the children were caught by some moving parts they could die. It was very dark in the factories or the mines; the only light source was the sun, so it was very difficult to see in there.
All in all the Industrial revolution was a time that made many changes in the society, something was positive like many things were invented and they went from brutal economy to monetary economy and something was negative that many lost their jobs when they started using machines in the factories and many died if they were caught by the machines. However, the machines was something that was very useful in the production. It were lots of child labour and many was very poor, they have to work very hard to pay for food and education.