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    The Flush Toilet The industrial revolution was very important. It created jobs for people in factories‚ which helped unemployment. Although the working conditions and pay were not very good‚ it helped inspire great inventions. One of the most important inventions that came from the industrial revolution was the flush toilet. The flush toilet improved the world by being convenient‚ providing better air quality‚ and sanitation. The invention of the flush toilet was very convenient

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    The industrial revolution brought about significantly social changes in Britain. It is obvious that a class of industrialists‚ ship owners‚ merchants accumulated great weath. However‚ many researchers devoted their time in investigating the effects to ordinary people. According to a post of Nardinelli (n.d)‚ there was an argument on the time when living condition were improved. “The pessimists claim no marked improvement in standards of living until the 1840s or 1850s. Most optimists‚ by contrast

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    2. What was the wage system that was imposed in the Industrial Revolution? How did this new system of payment affect the new working class? What impact did it have on women and children? How did this new wage system impact factory work and regulations? How did the Wage System impact living conditions of industrial workers? Include all key ideas and themes.          A system of paying people based on other factors that affected the price of the product produced and how much money the employers

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    The Industrial Revolution was a time of change‚ the birth of the factory system. Overall‚ it was a shift from handmade products to products made by powered‚ special-purpose machines in factories and assembly lines. The main idea was to produce more products in the same amount of time. The Industrial Revolution caused an improvement in living standards for the middle and upper class‚ but caused grim employment and living conditions for the poor and working class (Industrial Revolution). Normally

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    During the Industrial Revolution there were many positives‚ but there were also negatives. In this paragraph we will be focusing on one negative effect‚ the harsh conditions that factory workers had to live with. There were many ways in which the people suffered‚ one of them which involved the dangerous factories. The machines could easily rip off an arm or even blow up near anyone. It was also full of dust and debris which was the cause of widespread disease. They also had to sleep in one bed with

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    and merchants. People were divided from landowning elite to the peasants. Now in the great year of 1830‚ people are now industrial capitalist‚ inventors‚ laborers‚ shopkeepers‚ and factory clerks. Before‚ to be in an upper class it was based on birth‚ now it is based on education‚ so anybody can be in the upper class. We‚ as Englishmen‚ had a head start on the industrial revolution‚ our cotton industry is booming‚ we have railroads invented for fast transportation‚ and the steam engine puts a demand

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    During the Industrial Revolution‚ much progress was made in the production and consumption of goods. Because of the production and sales of so many goods‚ the entire continent prospered. This would not have been possible without child labor. Much of the progress during the Industrial Revolution was due to child labor. The benefits of child labor greatly outweigh the drawbacks because the economy improved‚ the factories gained money ‚ and the children benefitted. The factories benefitted greatly

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    Most people left their farms because of the enclosure system and moved to the towns the move from countryside to towns is call “urbanization”.Children living in urban areas during the industrial revolution had no option but to become miners‚factory workers or street kids. Most of the children were orphans (the life expectancy was not very high) and had no one to stand up for them. Mines: Around this time the demand for coal was increasing‚ because there was a shortage of flammable sources and

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    Week 2 APA Paper Lelia Hastings Hist 220 October 12‚ 2013 Debra Chittur Week 2 APA Paper The Industrial Revolution would usher in a new era type and publication‚ particular with Lord Stanhope”s invention of the all cast-iron printing press‚ doubling the usable paper size and drastically reducing the use of normal labor. In 1810 the halftone process was developed‚ allowing for the first photo to be printed on a range of full tones. This in turn introduced

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    Technology has revolutionized the way the world works with it being able to change standards that were set many years before. It would changed the way people would receive and send information throughout the world. Technology would start an industrial revolution during the early ninetieth century with it removing the old wood style machines and changing with metal machines simplifying many difficult tasks and creating bigger factories. With the creation of bigger factories and machines simplifying

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