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12795636424Industrializationrefers to a process that transformed agrarian and handi-centered economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacture0
12795636425Technological developmentsMade it possible to produce goods by machines rather than by hand and that harnessed inanimate sources of energy such as COAL and PETROLEUM1
12795636426Organizational changesaccompanied technological developments2
12795636427End of 19th centuryThe factory had become the predominant site of industrial production in Europe, the United States, and Japan.3
12795636428Mid 19th centuryMany giant corporations had joined together to control trade through trusts and cartels4
12795636429High populationencouraged occupational specialization and permitted many individuals to work at tasks other than cultivation5
12795636430Ecological obstaclesSOIL DEPLETION & DEFORESTATION threatened continued population growth and consumption levels.6
12795636431coalplayed a crucial role in the industrialization of Great Britian.7
12795636432wooduntil the 18th century it had served as the primary source of fuel for iron production, home eaing, and cooking.8
12795636433Substitution of coal for woodThe fortunate conjunction of COAL deposits and e skills necessary to extract this fuel encouraged the substitution of coal for wood, thus creating a promisingf ramework for industrialization9
12795636434calicoesinexpensive, brightly printed textiles imported. Cotton cloth became the pricapal fabric of european clothes before the 19th century.10
12795636435British wool producerspersuaded parliament to pass a series of laws to protect the domestic wool industry because they were threatened by the popularity of cotton products.11
12795636436The Calico ActAct of 1720 and 1721 prohibited imports of printed cotton cloth and restricted the sale of calicoes at home.12
12795636437Increase of cotton productionDemand for cotton was so trong that producers had to speed up spinning and weaving to supply growing domestic and foreign markets. to increase production, they turned to inventions that rapidly mechaized the cotton textile industry.13
127956364381730sartisans began to develop labor-saving devices for spinning and weaving cotton, thereby moving away from hand0based techniques derived from wool and linen industries.14
12795636439John Kaya mechanic that invented the flying shuttle. This device speeded up the weaving process and stimulated demand for thread.15
12795636440Samuel CromptonThe most important invention was samuel crompton's "mule," built in 1799. Adapted for steam power by 1790, the mule became the device of choice for spinning cotton.16
12795636441Edmund Cartwright1785 a clergyman without training or experience in either mechanics or textiles, patented a water-driven power loom that inaugurated an era of mechanical weaving.17
127956364421830half a million people worked in cotton business, Britians leading industry, which accounted for 40 percent of exports.18
12795636443James Wattinventor of the most crucial technological break through of the early industrial era, the development of a general-purpose steam engine in 1765, an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.19
12795636444horsepowerWatt's contemporaries used the term horsepower to measure the energy generated by his steam engine, which did the work numerous animals.20
12795636445Henry BessemerBuilt a refined blast furnace known as the Bessemer converter that made it possible to produce steel cheaply and in large quantities.21
12795636446Georgea self educated englishman, built the fisrt steam powered locomotive.22

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