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A Century of Transitions,
1815-1914
Late-1700s to mid-1800s
What is it like to live in a society with
rapidly changing technology?
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See Ms. G’s timeline (link on blog under
today’s date, unit 3).
Based on previous knowledge:
 Where did people live (primarily) before and
after?
 What was the economy based on?
 What kind of power was used for production?
 What type of work was done?
 What kind of fuel was used?
Pre-industrial
Industrial
Rural
Urban
Agricultural
Industrial
Human, animal, water and wind
power
Machine power – task specific
(steam)
Cottage work (at home,
handicrafts) couldn’t meet
growing demands. Carding,
combing, spinning yarn, weaving
cloth
Factory work. All under one roof,
growth of a working class
(proletariat), impersonal
dangerous conditions and
responses to them
Wood fuel
Coal fuel
Images:
http://inventors.about.com/od/indrev
olution/ss/Industrial_Revo.htm
Newcomen Steam Engine (1712)
Flying Shuttle (1733)
James Watt’s Improved Steam Engine (1769)
Spinning Mule (1779)
About.com. Industrial Revolution – Pictures from the
Industrial Revolution. 2013.
http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/ss/Industri
al_Revo.htm (November 2, 2013).
Quarry Bank Mill in
Lancashire, the centre of the
cotton industry in Britain
and the world by the early
1800s
Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate, 2001, http://www.quarrybankmill.org.uk/ (August 15, 2005);.
Cotton Mill
Oxford Archaeology, Cotton Spinning, 2004, www.oxfordarch.co.uk/.../ industrial/carding.jpg (August 15, 2005)
Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History:
Connections to Today – Teachers Edition (Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001), 520.
Child Coal Miners
National Archives Learning Curve, Victorian Britain, Industrial Nation, Source 4, n.d.,
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/industrial/source4.htm (October 15, 2005)
Mr. Sadler’s witness statement in Lord
Ashley’s Report, 1842
National Archives Learning Curve, Victorian Britain, Divided Nation, Source 3,
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/divided/source3.htm (October 15, 2005)
• “Up until the end of the 19th Century there was
no law that meant you had to be educated at all.
• In early Victorian Britain many children never
went to school.
• Parents had to pay for their children to go to
school, but many families were too poor to afford
this. They sent their children to work in the factories
instead.”
National Archives, Learning Curve, Snapshots, How We Were Taught, 2000, http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot15/snapshot15.htm
(October 15, 2005)
Stephenson’s
Locomotive, “The
Rocket”
BBC History Trail, Victorian Britain, Industry and Invention, 2001,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/industry_invention_6.shtml?site=history_victorianlj_
industry (August 15, 2005)
Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis
and Anthony Esler,
World History:
Connections to Today –
Teachers Edition (Upper
Saddle River, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall,
2001), 503.
“At the start of the
19th century about
20% of Britain’s
population lived
there, but by 1851
half the population of
the country had set up
home in London.”
George Cruikshank, London Going
Out of Town, 1829
Spartacus Educational, British History 1700-1900, n.d., http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm (October 15, 2005); National Archives,
Learning Curve, Snapshots, Victorian Homes, n.d., http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot14/snapshot14.htm (October 15, 2005)
Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History:
Connections to Today – Teachers Edition (Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001), 502.