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Industrial Revolution SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Buildings p.48
▸ ▸ Engines p.92
The Industrial Revolution was a time of huge growth in ▸ ▸ Factories p.97
industry brought about by the introduction of new ▸ ▸ Inventions
machinery. Factories were built to make products using pp.136–137

large numbers of machines. The revolution began in Britain ▸ ▸ Machines p.150
during the 1760s and later spread around the world. ▸ ▸ Pollution p.198

Factory work Steam engines
were used to
Factories contained rows of Steam trains Chimneys power ships.
machines that made things in large transported goods and belched out
amounts, such as textiles, iron and fuel, such as coal, to smoke all day.
brass goods, pottery, and glassware. and from the factory.
These machines were powered first
by water and then by steam.

Barges traveled on
canals carrying goods
between towns.

Child labor
Children as young as four
Workers lived worked in the factories
in small, and mines. The work was
overcrowded often dangerous and
houses. dirty. Children also swept
Small towns grew Horsedrawn carts chimneys and ran errands.
up quickly around carried supplies to They worked up to 80
the factories. the factory. hours a week, but were
paid very little money. Boys working in a cotton mill
in Georgia, 1900

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