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    away from water‚ it marked the invention of the steam engine. According to Document 3 “Steam-engines moreover‚ by the cheapness and steadiness of their action‚ fabricate [produce] cheap goods.” Along with cheap goods and making necessary products of life‚ factories also produced more goods quicker via assembly line and mass production (O.I.) This allowed for less skilled workers since all they had to do is one job (O.I.) As a result of steam engines being implemented into factories allowed much more

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    the steam power and by the developments made by that many other great developments spread all around the world in the years between 1760 and 1840. Therefore‚ Industrial Revolution had a great impact on the world’s technological‚ economical and social matters. The first effect of the Industrial Revolution can be seen in technological developments. Of course‚ one can simply conclude that the industry had the biggest effect from the Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the first steam powered

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    people in all parts of the world. Inventions like the cotton gin ‚ the mechanical reaper and the tractor revolutionized our agricultural system‚ while inventions such as steam power‚ trains and steam ships decreased the amount of time it took to travel and ship goods. Mr. Fogg and Passepartout use to their advantage the powers of steam and coal throughout the book to cross vast oceans and travel across countries‚ but even though with all the modern technological marvels‚ the companions are routinely

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    A-Z Book of Inventions from the Industrial Revolution By: Al Yolles Automated sugar refining Automated sugar refining was created by Norbert Rillieux. Rilliex created sugar as we know it today. He created a safer and much more efficient way of processing sugar in 1843. Battery The battery was invented by Alessandro Volta. It was made of multiple zinc and silver plates stacked on each other‚ with a wire connected to both ends of the pile. With the wire touching both ends‚ this creates electricity

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    Dozens of factors contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution but the inventions are the most important‚ such as the Spinning Jenny‚ the Telephone‚ and the Steam Engine. Before the Spinning Jenny was produced‚ workers would have to spin yarn on a spinning wheel with only one spindle. This was a laborious task and took way too much time. In 1764‚ James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny‚ which allowed workers to spin yarn on eight spindles. The Spinning Jenny rapidly increased the process

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    the technological innovation that eventually came to bring the industrial revolution to be. Coal was important to the Industrial Revolution because it burned hotter than wood charcoal. The additional heat was needed in the boilers that ran the steam engines developed during the Industrial

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    England. Lahabrahighschool. Retrieved June 12‚ 2012‚ from www.lahabrahighschool.net/ourpages/auto/2012/4/17/51220791/10_3_1.pdf Live Science (2012.). How the Steam Engine Changed the World | LiveScience . Science News – Science Articles and Current Events | LiveScience . Retrieved June 11‚ 2012‚ from http://www.livescience.com/2612-steam-engine-changed-world.html Sea.ca. (2003). The Industrial Revolution - Causes. The Industrial Revolution. Retrieved June 11‚ 2012‚ from http://industrialrevolution

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    invent vapor compression refrigeration‚ various textile machinery‚ and perhaps his longest lasting invention‚ the high-pressure steam engine. His design would be used in locomotives that would become crucial to both the American and global Industrial Revolutions. Evans was born in 1755. Coincidentally‚ this was the same year that Josiah Hornblower built the first steam engine in what would become the United States. It was the very invention Evans would rise to improve upon. He was a millwright by choice

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    Jesse Weinstein Period 4 AP Euro Mr. Ervin Industrial Revolution Essay/Outline 1/17/12 Industrial Revolution Essay The 19th century was full of new innovations and ideas‚ but not all of these had a positive effect on the people. The industrial revolution caused many people to leave their simple rural homes‚ and move to the city where they could find a job working at a factory. These factories had terrible working conditions‚ and low paying wages. The cities where these factories were located

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    number of inventions that made cotton textiles cheaper and faster to produce. At the same time‚ steam engines were also being produced to help spread industrialization and trade. This Industrial Revolution grew and spread changing the politics‚ economics‚ and social aspects of the world. Politically the Industrial Revolution radically changed the world. With the production of steel and steam engines‚ trade drastically increased around the world changing the relationships of countries and allowing

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