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Industrial
Revolution
Machines rule and workers move
from fields to FACTORIES
Steam up
In the 19th century, vast Coal mining became Stephenson started
textile factories and mills crucial to the success of his career in coal
with newly invented steam- the Industrial Revolution. mines looking after
powered machinery sprang the steam machinery
up all over England. COAL used there.
production soared to fuel
these growing industries.
On the right track
Steam engines had been running on
public railroads for four years when
English engineer George Stephenson
launched his locomotive Rocket in
1829. This champion train won the
speed race on the NEW RAILROAD
from Liverpool to Manchester,
zipping along at 29 mph (47 km/h).
Young children like these
cloth-mill workers often did
hard, dangerous jobs.
How it changed
Grim life The Industrial Revolution
As industry replaced agriculture, country folk turned made traveling easier and
into city dwellers. Masses of people filled towns and made many things
cities looking for WORK. Conditions were grim, cheaper, but the cost to
with crowded houses, long shifts for terrible pay, human health was large.
and dangerous jobs. Even children worked, with the world
workplace accidents and poor health common. 29
