The Industrial Revolution occurred from the 18th to 19th century, beginning in Britain, where there were major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology. This led to urbanization as many people migrated from rural to urban areas for more opportunities in the cities from the growing number of industrial jobs. New technologies like the steam engine and innovations in textiles and steel production drove industry and economic growth during this revolutionary period.

1. The Industrial
Revolution
By Destiny Anger

2. What is the Industrial
Revolution?
❖ It was a time from the 18th to the 19th century where major
agricultural, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and
technology changes occurred.
❖ It began in Britain, but spread throughout Western Europe,
North America and Japan.

3. What is urbanization?
❖ It’s the condition of being
urbanized.
❖ A cottage industry a primarily
manufacturing industry which
includes many producers that
work from their homes.
❖ There was a migration of people
from rural to urban during the
Industrial Revolution.
❖ People migrated from rural to
urban because life in the city
was easier, and all the jobs
started popping up in the citites.

4. Agricultural Revolution
❖ The agricultural revolution was a time when there was an
increase in agricultural productivity, which in turn led to
population growth, which meant more workers, and
ultimately helped drive the industrial revolution.
❖ Crop Rotation: When farmers rotate their crops so that the
plants don’t use up all of the nutrients from the soil.

5. Textiles
❖ Textiles were the first
commodity to boom in
the industrial revolution.
❖ Textiles are things such as
cloth or woven fabric.
❖ Steam engines, the loom,
and the cotton gin helped
the textile industry
boomed.
❖ Eli Whitney invented the
cotton gin.

6. Steam Engine
❖ Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine.
❖ Invented in 1775
❖ It was the first engine ever created, was faster than humans,
and could make almost anything.
❖ James Watt is credited with improving it.

7. Bessemer Process
❖ The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-
production of steel.
❖ Henry Bessemer came up with it.
❖ It revolutionized steel manufacture by decreasing its cost
and increasing its productivity.

8. Pasteurization
❖ Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization and
discovered the germ theory of disease.
❖ Pasteurizations kills many bacteria that
cause food to spoil or go bad, and it
sterilizes foods and milk, making them last
longer.

9. Thomas Edison
❖ Invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and microphone.
❖ Over a thousand.
“Anything that wont sell, I
don’t want to invent. Its sale
is proof of utility, and utility
is success.”

10. Romanticism
❖ Was an artistic, intellectual, and literal movement.
❖ it gained strength in reaction to the industrial revolution.
❖ Some authors from the Romantic period include Emily
Dickinson and Washington Irving.