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    classes formed such as the middle class and the working class. People who are rich can get many goods in the city. Houses were designed better and there were many utensils you could buy. Traveling was also improved with a newly invented steam engine that powers steam locomotives. You could get to many places faster and cheaper. Urbanization let many people to cities to work in factories. The factories were overcrowded and very dangerous. Working hours were extreme and the working conditions were unsafe

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    inventions of the time impacted the industrial revolution positively. As coal became the ideal source of energy‚ more coal powered machines were invented. The steam engine‚ which was designed by James Watt in 1765‚ burned coal. Ultimately‚ the use of it became widespread and efficiency was increased. This lead to the invention of the steam powered locomotive in 1815 by George Stephenson. Transportation of goods was suddenly much more practical.

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    The Industrial Revolution was a time of advancement and greatness in the world for all. It was a major change from 1760 to the period of 1820 all the way to 1840. The movement started in Great Britain and affected anything and everything from industrial manufacturing processes all the way to the daily life of the average normal citizen. This paper is about discussing the Industrial Revolution and all the effects it had on the world as a whole. The main booming industry of the time was the textiles

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    The industrial revolution had been a major turning point in world history. During this period of industrialism‚ average income began to exhibit remarkable sustained growth. During the 18th and 19th century‚ the world’s average per capita income increased more than tenfold. The inhabitants of Britain standard of living had been drastically increasing during the industrial revolution. The level of income that England has had over the years could not have been reached without the industrial revolution

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    The British Industrial revolution is defined as the rapid economic growth and industrialization which occurred in Britain between the 16th and 18th century. There are several arguments posed with regards to what the sole cause was for this revolution. One being on the idea of trade and the interactions with countries outside of Britain (Western Europe‚ Western Africa and the Americas) as the cause of industrialization (Atlantic World economic system). Indeed‚ the Atlantic World economic system was

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    Buffalo‚ New York. Production was increased even more because of this‚ since travel was made to be faster. Since the rise in production and the faster rate of transportation‚ society in general does everything at a faster rate. The invention of steam engines paved the way for many other forms of transportation‚ including steamships‚ the automobile‚ planes‚ and the light rail. There were also developments in nonindustrial areas‚ including agriculture‚ the economy‚ and social

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    industry‚ and its expansion relative to the other sectors of the economy‚ those being agriculture and services.” This was the time that financial production moved from the use of hand tools to the use of power machinery‚ powered mostly by coal and steam. The method of powering machines went from using the working-class to powered machines doing all the work for the working-class. These machines were able to work without taking breaks‚ rapidly‚ and efficiently. In addition‚ this produced many inventions

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    Before the Industrial Revolution life for the working-class was very community based and most people were living in the country side. According to (Allen‚ 2017) the lower-class people rode horses to travel everywhere and was community based as people got their entertainment from the local fairs‚ people in the town would work in small shops‚ kill the animals for food‚ baked their own bread and more without the help of machines. People who owned land or were wealthy had all the power then. In this

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    the limited ability of people to tap into the sun’s energy through farms‚ windmills‚ waterwheels‚ etc. Carbon-based fuel use began in the late eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution was ushered in by the use of coal. The invention of the steam engine and its subsequent use in mechanizing the British textile was the catalyst to this “revolution”. American industrialization began with New England’s water-powered textile mills. By the 1830s‚ large-scale coal extraction had begun in

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    economically. With machines running factories and making the goods; the good were cheaper and faster to make. (Doc 3) Iron industry had been equally revolutionized by the invention of smelting by pit-coal‚ and by the application in 1788 of the steam-engine to blast furnaces. (Doc 2) With machines running mostly everything the amount of

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