1. The Industrial Revolution Spreads

2. The Industrial Revolution Spreads
Learning Points
Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change during the Industrial Revolution.

3. The Industrial Revolution Spreads
As the Industrial Revolution spread in the 1800s:
Other nations took the lead from Britain
Iron gave way to steel
Steam gave way to electricity
Businesses gave way to corporations.

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Industrial Revolution spread from Britain to Belgium, then to the rest of Europe.

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Other nations beat Britain because:
They had more and better coal, iron, and other resources.
They simply copied technology whereas Britain had to invent it.

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Germany, once unified, became the most powerful industrial nation in Europe.
The USA became even more powerful after the Civil War.
By 1900, the US made 30% of the world’s goods

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Eastern and Southern Europe developed slowly because:
They did not have the proper resources
They did not have extra capital

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Why did other nations surpass Britain in the Industrial Revolution?

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Russia had more than enough resources, but an unreformed political system did not allow them to take advantage of them.

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Japan had none of the resources needed but rapidly industrialized because of a revolution based on becoming a modern nation.

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Which two nations became the most powerful industrial nations by 1900?

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As industrialized nations became more powerful, they were able to dominate non-Western nations and used them as a source for resources.

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In the 1880s businesses began hiring and training professional scientists and inventors to improve their product.
Science + Technology + Industry = Money and Power

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Bessemer invented steel, a purer form of iron.
Nobel: Dynamite
Faraday: The Electric Motor
Thomas Edison:
Light Bulb
Motion Picture
The X-Ray Machine
The electric chair
The Phonograph

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Interchangeable parts were developed to mass-produce goods.
Factories added assembly lines to speed up the manufacturing process

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Steamships
Transcontinental Railroad
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Otto invented the engine; Daimler and Benz made the car
Henry Ford improved the car, making it affordable

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Name 2 things Thomas Edison invented.

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American Wright brothers flew the first airplane.
Telegraphs, radios, and, soon, telephones are invented making instant communication with distant empires possible

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Business owners sold “stocks” or small amounts of their company to get capital.
As their business became more successful, these stocks grew in worth.
A business with stock is called a corporation.

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Huge corporations moved to buy out and control entire industries (steel, railroad, oil, telegraphs)
When they succeeded they created “monopolies”

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What is a monopoly?