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    Transportation and technology evolved from horses and dirt roads to trains and steam boats‚ from imperfect and handmade objects to precise and factory-made objects. These changes influenced an environment of factories and very large cities. This big change was called The Industrial Revolution. Transportation changed from horseback riding to trains and steamboats. New roads were invented to help horse carriages travel smoother. Steamboats‚ clipper ships‚ and canals all helped travel on the water

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    The turn of the century changed everything all over the world. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and 19th centuries and was a period of significant economic development marked by the introduction of power-driven machinery. The steam engine was use to run machinery. Before this time‚ a few machines were use to harness nature such as the wind and watermills‚ humans‚ and animals were depended upon as a source of power. Much like the Agricultural Revolution‚ the Industrial Revolution

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    Female Mill Workers…How Similar Were Their Experiences? With the dawn of industrialization Production’s most valuable resource was not raw materials‚ but time. The steam engine allowed vast amounts of goods to be created cheaply‚ and so it was ultimately decided by the workers how much was produced; rather than their work being limited by their materials it was limited by their speed. And so‚ efficiency‚ that is producing as much as possible as fast as possible‚ became the factory owner’s first

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    Cotton Gin with loving‚ open arms because it made their work almost effortless. The large amount of time it took for the gruesome task of separating seeds from the cotton was replaced with a machine that allowed for a lot more free time‚ the steam-powered engine allowed for much more fuel-efficiency‚ and the power loom allowed factory workers to have a life outside of the factory. Then‚ the Civil War brought heavy economical change. It became detrimental

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    The Invention of the jet Engine Mohammadhossein Khoddammohammadi January 25‚ 2014 A jet engine is a reaction engine discharging a fast moving jet that generates thrust by jet propulsion in accordance with Newton’s laws of motion. This broad definition of jet engines includes turbojets‚ turbofans‚ rockets‚ ramjets‚ and pulse jets. In general‚ jet engines are combustion engines but non-combusting forms also exist. In common parlance‚ the term jet engine loosely refers to an internal

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    2013 The Diesel Engine: Making a Comeback The diesel engine has provided the world with cheap and efficient power for over one hundred years. The invention was first thought up by Rudolph Diesel in 1892. He wanted to create an engine that would be more efficient than the steam engine‚ which was only 12% efficient. He filed for a patent in Germany in February of 1892. He was granted a patent for a “Working Method and Design for Combustion Engines...new efficient‚ thermal engine” (History). With

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    During the Industrial Revolution‚ England experienced many technological changes that paved the way for the highly mechanized and modern society that exists today. Out of the many changes‚ the most important is the creation of the factory that created many jobs for the unemployed‚ shifted society to become a workhouse of inventions‚ and changed British society for the better. Before the factory‚ many families were farmers that produced food for their own use‚ and their children would learn to churn

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    Industrial Revolution DBQ    The  Industrial  Revolution was the turning point of the 19th century‚ which paved the way  for  many  of  today’s  modern   machines  and  technologies.  Notable  advances  during  the   Industrial  revolution  include  steam  powered  engines‚  the  telegraph‚  and  the  telephone.  However‚  human  operated  machines   for  producing  cloth  ade  the  process of producing textile much  more efficient‚  and  soon  textile  mills  were  born.  the  working  conditions  of  the 

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    the same. Gasoline is typically burned in spark-ignition internal combustion engines‚ in which a source of energy (a spark) is required to start the ignition process. Simply put‚ these engines mix gasoline vapor and air‚ compress the result‚ apply a spark to initiate combustion‚ and then force the byproducts of combustion out as exhaust. Gasoline is well suited to this process‚ although sometimes either it or engine operating conditions can cause "knock‚" an unwanted and destructive condition in

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    selling goods. People were now buying stocks to support businesses. Not to mention that production was now more efficient‚ new jobs also helped speed up processes. During this time‚ new inventions soared‚ such as the spinning jenny and reliable steam engines. The new inventions made the industry advance and made production

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