1. Causes of the Industrial Revolution: Transportation
By Libby Hur, Elliot Tang, Mona Moshet, Simon Un & Wendy Starr

2. Famous People John McAdam
A Scottish engineer who worked out a new way of building roads that improved travel conditions.
These roads are called Macadam roads
Thomas Newcomen
An English engineer who produced the
first successful steam engine
James Watt
Studied Newcomen’s works and improved them
He also produced faster and slightly different models of steam engines which later made steam the industry’s major power source.

3. Famous People (Continued)
George Stephenson
an English engineer who perfected the locomotive that ran on rails.
His works lead to continuous improvement in transportation.
Robert Fulton
an American who established the first regular steamboat service
His boat was launched on the Hudson River, which began a series of trips back and forth between NYC and Albany.
Samuel Cunard
From Great Britain, founded a shipping company called Cunard Line which offered convenient steamboat service throughout the Atlantic.

4. New Methods Steam Engine
A canal
Steam Engine
It was invented so that factories won’t have to be built beside a body of water.
Besides water, people found that steam was also a strong source of power which lead to the Newcomen engines.
Canals
They allowed a bulk of materials to travel easily across a country, such as coal.
This reduced a lot of time, which allowed a faster production time in many countries
Roads
allowed heavy goods to transport slowly by carts and made broad wheeled carts, hauled by horses, easier to travel with

5. New Methods (Continued)
Railways
Made to carry people, horses, and wagons at a more faster rate
Were an easy method to use in order to travel from city to city with goods
With all these new methods, more
work was able to be done in a shorter
amount of time.
Early railways

6. Improvements on Current Methods
Wheels
Before the Industrial Revolution, wheels were wooden or made of stone
A new rubber wheel that made rides quicker and more comfortable was created by Charles Goodyear in 1839
Steam Engines
James Watt modified Newcomen’s steam engine so that it was faster and better and didn’t need to cool off as often
BEFORE: Newcomen’s steam engine AFTER: Watt’s steam engine

7. Predictions for Impact on Great Britain
We believe that as time progresses transportation will improve
Impact on Great Britain:
Quicker and easier trading  more profit  even better economy
Thoughts & Innovations spread easily  more inventions  more industrialization

8. Predictions for How it Will Spread & How it Will Impact Other Countries
We believe transportation would spread to other countries by trade and accessibility.
It would spread through trade by trading the different machines used to travel easier.
The steamboat, for example, could be traded to other countries, so they could transport and ship items a lot quicker.
For accessibility, roads, canals, and railroads were developed so imports/exports were transported quicker.
Roads improved traveling conditions and canals stretched to make water highways, both which sped up the process of trade and transportation.
Impact: Countries will be able to trade quicker which will lead to an increase in profit

9. Our Topic, Transportation is Obviously the Most Important!
Without transportation, none of the other advancements would have happened or been able to spread
Transportation moves the new products throughout England and to other countries.
The steamboat made trade and travel between countries much faster.
One of the early steamboats was able to make it across the Atlantic Ocean in only 15 days which is less than half the time it took a ship to sail across.
the steam engine could go 29 mile per hour, which is very fast compared to other modes of transportation.

10. Our Topic, Transportation is Obviously the Most Important! (Continued)
With all of the new rail road’s popping up everywhere, people were transporting crops and metals on the special freight train that cut down travel time, allowing people to make more money.
these new forms of transportation made communication easier, because it allowed messages to travel faster and more efficiently throughout the country and world.
Without of the new and improved transportation, all of the other area, agriculture, textile, iron and steel, and communication would not have had such an easy time growing and expanding.

11. Works Cited