1. Aim: To what extent can machine power transform the world?

2. Trump and Jobs Bringing back Manufacturing jobs
Bringing back Manufacturing jobs

3. Would you be willing to pay 20% for a product if American workers/human workers produced it, rather than a machine?

4. Industrial Revolution (1750-1900)

5. Look Familiar?

6. Early Industrial revolution
Flying Shuttle- 1733, easier weaving by person, 50% reduction in necessary labor
Spinning Jenny-> see image at bottom right
Water Frame-1768
Textile Mills-creation of fabric “bolts”

7. Water Frame-what is powering the device?

8. Early Industrial Revolution Textile Mills powered by…

9. Causes of Industrial Revolution
Coal-used for centuries as a source of heat, particularly in England
Thomas Newcomen-(1712)created 1st steam engine, used to clear coal mines of water
Steam Engine-”safe” version invented by James Watt in (x<10% energy efficiency)
Portable, factories could be anywhere (previously linked to water power)

10. Why England?
High Wages
Lack of Invasion (last successful one in 1066 CE)
Colonies for raw materials
Large middle class and property rights protected (think John Locke)
Coal Deposits
Increasing population->

12. Iron and Steel Production
Bessemer Steel Process- Invented1855
Allowed creation of cheap and durable steel

15. The Factory System-Move to the cities, why?
Previously, much manufacturing done at the home
Concentrated labor under 1 roof
Shifted Rural to city life (migration from the country to city)
Bosses and workers together

16. Transportation Revolution
Locomotives (trains)-1804
Steam ships-1807
Eventually the automobile (1885 in Germany)

17. Primary Documents-Textile factory in Leeds, England