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    and the environment has changed due to industrialization which led to humans exploiting the environment and polluting it. At the beginning‚ everyone was nomadic roaming from one region to the next scavenging for food‚ because of the lack of technology. It wasn’t until the first Agriculture Revolution occurred that the people change their lifestyle. The agriculture revolution led to the change in human lifestyle. For example: people began to settle down‚ start farms‚ and start to live by water

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    How Dynamite shaped world cultures While Sweden is filed with many different types of inventions I believe that one invention stands out above all the others. I believe that Sweden’s most important contribution to the word is the invention of dynamite. Dynamite is used so much that it is a house hold name‚ and without dynamite many of the places we visit or roads we use would not be possible. Also without many of the things that dynamite has contributed to the cultures of our world would

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    The end of the 19th century was an important time for Europe and its nations. Nations had become industrialized thanks to the industrial revolution‚ and were making advances in science every passing day. It was a different than Europe 100 years ago. It seemed every country had changed‚ and become extremely political. Imperialism was growing in Europe as well‚ the foreign policy of almost every main country. 30 years before‚ the large Prussian army invaded France and took a fair amount of their land

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    quick and efficient. It would be an amazing change and it would greatly influence everybody. In order to do so‚ new tools and methods were used to improve the way products were made. There were a lot of inventions and ideas that contributed to the technology and industrial growth‚ such as the creation of electricity‚ expanding transportation‚ and industrialization. Electricity was one of the greatest inventions to benefit American society. It started in 1876 when Thomas Edison created the light bulb

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    made production so much easier. In human history energy to make things was that of humans. (Ellis et al.) The Inventions brought in more

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    With many flaws in this new revolution‚ does however‚ also come some positive impacts. Our time is a time of evolving‚ learning new things to share with the world‚ which the industrial revolution allows. We are learning from clocks that the spinning wheel could make cotton fibers. We use the water wheel to produce energy and as long as we have a supply of cotton our factories could grow bigger. We look at the dark side of things but in the time of the bad we have goods like making a social progress

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    The industrial transformation following the Civil War included many similar circumstances to the industrial boom between 1815 and 1900. In that time period‚ Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and the McCormick Reaper incited a new and more efficient way of living. The revolutionary changes made to the entire society allowed the country to modernize every aspect of life. Changes were seen as beneficial because of the lack of mass corruption to the integrity of the political and economic areas of America. Unlike

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    To what extent did the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution contribute to economic change in this period? Technological developments of the Industrial Revolution made a profound contribution to the economic changes in this period liberating labor and allowed for unbridled monetary developments. The Industrial revolution spanning the 150-year period between 1750 to 1900 saw exponential technological advancements in England which freed the average person from the confines of their

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    The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in 1750 due to the advancement in technology‚ and it spread throughout the world. Britain’s unique wealth‚ resources‚ education‚ population and access to trade was a catalyst for the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution suffered both positive and negative effects. A positive effect of the Industrial Revolution was the punishments. The negative effects of the Industrial Revolution were the working conditions‚ accidents and the pollution

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    Eli Whitney was an American inventor. He had a nickname which as “the father of American technology” He was most known for the two inventions he made. They were the key to the Industrial Revolution. The inventions were accountable for mass industrial production that is still used today. During the Industrial Revolution there were many inventions that were assembled to improve the lives of countless people. The cotton gin and interchangeable parts made Eli Whitney one of the most magnificent inventors

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