The Industrial Revolution

Stevenson’s Rocket

• first fast train

• first train to carry animals

• first train to go from London to Liverpool

• it landed on the moon

caused by dirty living conditions and lack of clean drinking water

• typhoid

• cholera

• Bubonic Plague

• Covid 19

Mill owner who paid good wages, built homes for his works and provided education. Established Trade Unions and Co-operatives for his workers

• Lord Swilly

• Robert Owen

• Robert Bakewell

• Lord Lullaby

1769; Richard Arkwright invented this; spinning machine powered by water

• Power Loom

• Water Frame

• mill

• Spinning Jenny

1733; John Kay invented this to speed up weaving

• Spinning Jenny

• Water Frame

• Power Loom

• The Flying Shuttle

1764; James Hargreaves invented this to speed up spinners

• Mule

• The Power Loom

• Spinning Jenny

• The Flying Shuttle

Turnpike Trusts

• Gates at the canals

• Banks that people trusted with their money

• Collected tolls to build and maintain roads

Cottage Industry

• type of houses clustered together

• making cottage pies at home

• weaving and sowing down at home

Main material found in Britain which helped buildings, machinery and transport

• coal

• coal and iron ore

• copper

• tin

disease of the lungs

• cholera

• tuberculosis

• typhoid

• thyroid