The Industrial Revolution

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This paper briefly discusses how the Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most significant revolution of the modern world and how civilization seemed to jump decades ahead with the invention of the steam engine and the railroad. It also looks at how the Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain was born from need and led from one invention to another.

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"Great Britain was the "home" (Craig 627) of the Industrial Revolution. Several factors come into play for this with the primary reason being that Great Britain was the "single largest free-trade area in Europe" (627). The political structure was stable in Great Britain and with a solid banking system along with a good public credit created a "good investment climate" (627). The earliest signs of the Industrial Revolution emerge with rise of mechanical inventions. The spinning jenny was patented in 1769 and it "broke the bottle neck between the productive capacity of the spinners and the weavers" (628). In 1779, Samuel Crompton invented a modified version of the spinning wheel that accelerated improvements in other areas dealing with weaving. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Chodorow, Stanley, et al. A History of the World. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers. 1986.
• Craig, Albert, et al. The Heritage of World Civilizations. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 2000.
• Noble, Thomas, et al. Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1994.

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