Tuesday, 31 July 2012


Health improvements
Some simple improvements that had a great effect on the health of the people were a proper sewerage system and clean water. People wore not worried about make any health improvements until an outbreak of Cholera in 1830 and 1840. After the outbreak people started to change their minds about any health improvements that were need.

Saturday, 28 July 2012


Farming
Farming in the 17th century had not change and much from the new stone as they used much the same tools and same system. This system was called the open-field system this meant that each villager would get their own strips of good and bad soil the rich farmers would get more strips. They would all share the common and waste land to rear their cows, sheep and pigs. There was alternative to this system and it was enclosed fields. This system meant that each farmer would get his own field roughly the size of the strips he previously owned. The fields were enclosed by hedges or fences. Most poor people were against this because they had to few strips to make a field and did not have enough money to enclose the field anyway. There were also some improvements made to the machinery. For example the invention of seed drill which was a much more efficient way to sow the seeds. 

Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was born 5 May 1818 and died 14 March 1883. He was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was important to the industrial revaluation because he started a major criticism of the Industrial Revolution.   Marx believed that the Industrial Revolution was unfair to the workers. He believed it took away the pride in their work. Marx created the ideas of Marxism, socialism, and communism.

Tuesday, 24 July 2012


Telephone
The Telephone is an invention from a period of time known as the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850).The Telephone was invented by Alex Bell in the year 1874. The Telephone was a major invention of the Industrial Revolution because it made it easier for people communicate. The Telephone has grown over the years and lead to the invention of the mobile phone.  

Steam Engine
The Steam Engine is an invention from a period of time known as the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850). The Steam Engine was invented by James Watt in the year 1775. Coal was used to power the steam engines. The Steam Engine lead on to be the building point for many other invents.

Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny is an invention from a period of time known as the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850). The Spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in the year 1764. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun from a corresponding set of rovings. By turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. Improvements were made that enabled the number to be increased to eighty.