Mechanisation of industry. The factory

Where the industrial production was done in the Ancien Régime?

• Small workshops

• Houses

• Factories

• Street

With the arrival of the industrial Revolution the number of artisanal workshops start to increase

• True

• False

Why the transformation was possible?

• Thanks to the use of metal materials

• Thanks to the use of old techniques

• Thanks to the use of new techniques and a new division of labour

• Thanks to the use of natural materials

The small workshops were substituted by factories

• True

• False

A consequence of population growth was...

• An increase in the demand for wood

• An increase in the demand for cotton fabrics

• An increase in the demand for minerals

• An increase in the demand for paper

The new division of labour consisted of...

• Separating the work process into different workers

• Separating the work process into different machines

• Separating the work process into different ages to work them more easily

• Separating the work process into different phases

The first industries to apply machinery in order to mass-produce products were the textile and (a)   industries

What was first used to meet the growing demand?

• magnetic machinery

• hydraulic machinery

• electric machinery

• machines driven by steam engines

The large size of these machines helped consolidate the factory system

• False

• True

Who improved iron prduction by inventing techniques to convert pig iron into wrought iron, making it more resistant and to better cast it?

• Thomas Newcomen

• Henry Cort

• James Watt

• Jethro Tull