The document discusses key events and inventions during the Industrial Revolution period from the 18th to 19th centuries. It describes how the Industrial Revolution began in Britain and spread to Western Europe, North America, and eventually the whole world. Some important innovations discussed include the cotton gin, steam engine, Bessemer process, pasteurization, and inventions by Thomas Edison. The document also mentions urbanization, changes to agriculture, and the rise of textile industries during this revolutionary period.

1. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Breanna Day
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2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• It occurred during the 18th
and 19th century.
• It began in Britain.
• Western Europe, North
America, Japan then
eventually the whole world.
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3. URBANIZATION
• Is a physical growth of Urban areas as
a global change.
• Cottage Industry is an industry where
the creation of products and services
is home based rather than factory
based.
• There was a migration of people
from rural to urban during Industrial
Revolution.
• There were more jobs in city as more
factories arose.
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4. AGRICULTURE REVOLUTION
• Crop rotation is the practice
of growing a series of
different types of crops in
the same area in sequential
seasons
• The Agriculture revolution
began the producing of
larger amounts of food.
Which led to bigger
population.
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5. TEXTILES.
•A woven cloth or type of clothing.
• Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney.
• Flying shuttle, Cotton Gin, and Carding
Machine helped the industry boom.
• Textileindustries were the first
commodity.
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6. STEAM ENGINE
• Invented by Thomas Newcomen
• Improved by James Watt
• Invented in 1712
• It was the first practical device to
harness the power of steam to
produce mechanical work.
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7. BESSEMER PROCESS
•A steel making process in which carbon silicon
and other impurities are moved from molten
pig Iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special
tilting retort.
• Invented by Henry Bessemer
• It was important because before the Bessemer
process Britain had no practical method of
reducing the carbon content of pig iron.
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8. PASTEURIZATION
• To subject milk, wine, or other
products to a process of
partial sterilization involving
heat treat mentor irradiation,
thus making the product safe
for a person consumption and
improving its keeping quality
• Louis Pasteur was a French
Chemist who invented a way
to stop milk and wine from
making people sick through
pasteurization.
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9. THOMAS EDISON
• Somethings he invented were
the lightbulb, phonograph,
and the radio. •
• He had 1093 patients.
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10. ROMANTICISM
• Is a movement in the arts and
literature that originated in the
late 18th century, emphasizing
inspiration, subjectivity, and the
primacy of the individual.
• William Words worth and Mary
Shelly were two authors during
the time.
• It’s reaction to the Industrial
Revolution was very hostile.
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