The industrial revolution

The Industrial Revolution.

The industrial revolution started in the late 18^th  century and carried onto the 19^th century, before that people used to live in rural areas where they used to work in the farming industry this was hard work and the income for their work was minimum. People also they had to produced their own food, clothing, tools etc these where done in small rural shops by hand. Thomas Savery was an English engineer who invented the first steam engine in 1698, this solved the problem of pumping water out of coal mines, thus making coal easier to mine. After the creation of the first steam engine Thomas Newcomen improved on Thomas Slavery’s original design creating an atmospheric steam engine, in 1712 he worked with John Calley in which they built the first engine that went on top of a mine shaft and pumped out water. In 1765 James Watt who was a Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor, improved the Newcomen engine, Watt’s engine became one of the most important designs for all modern steam engines which brought about the industrial revolution.

The Newcomen Engine.

The industrial revolution had an impact on theses rural areas, landscapes changed, people started to travel to cities for work but had to live in bad conditions as the cities became over populated and children used to work in factories and mines to get into small holes this of course was highly dangerous. It also brought in an increase of trade and great wealth for some. The industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s, with the creation of the steam engine which was power by coal this brought change in the manufacturing industries and roads, railways and mills where made. 

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