1. The Industrial
Revolution
Cedar Robertson
11/9/11
Period 5

2. Industrial Revolution
Defined
• The Industrial Revolution was a time
when major changes in agriculture,
manufacturing, mining, transportation,
had a impact on every day life.
• It was a period from the 18th to 19th
century.
• It began in Britain.
• Western Europe, North America, Japan,
and eventually the world were also
involved.

3. Migration
• Urbanization is the physical growth of urban
areas as a result of global change.
• A cottage industry is an industry where the
creation of products and services is home-
based, rather than factory-based.
• There was a migration of people from rural to
urban during the Industrial Revolution.
• People moved from farms to cities because the
economic problems forced them to get better
jobs.

4. Industry City

5. Agricultural
Revolution
• Crop Rotation is the practice of growing
different crops in the same area in order
of seasons.

6. Textiles
• Textiles were the first commodity to
boom during the industrial revolution.
• Textiles are the branch of industry
involved in the manufacture of cloth.
• Cotton was an invention that helped
the textile industry boom.
• Eli Whitney was the inventor of the
cotton gin.

7. Textile Factory &
Cotton Gin

8. Steam Engine
• Thomas Savery was the
inventor.
• James Watt was credited as
the man who improved it.
• It was invented in 1698.
• It was the primary source of
power during the industrial
revolution. It replaced water
power and muscle power.

9. Bessemer Process
• It was the first inexpensive
industrial process for the
mass-production of steel
from molten pig iron.
• It was invented by Henry
Bessemer.
• It was important because
it was an inexpensive way
to make steel fast.

10. Pasteurization
• Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and
microbiologist.
• Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization.
• Pasteurization was used to heat beer
and wine to a certain temperature so
that it could avoid diseases.
• This was important because diseases
were already a problem and a lot of
people during this time drank a lot.

11. Pasteurization Proccess

12. Thomas Edison
• Three things Edison invented:
• 1) Lightbulb
• 2) Kinetoscope
• 3) Cylinder Phonograph
• Thomas Edison had 1,093 patents in the
U.S.
• “I readily absorb ideas from every
source, frequently starting where the
last person left off.” -Thomas Edison.

13. Thomas Edison and Light
Bulb

14. Romanticism
• Romanticism was an artistic,
literary and intellectual
movement that originated in
the second half of the 18th
century in Europe, and gained
strength in reaction to the
Industrial Revolution.
• Tomas Chatterton and
Konstantin Batyushkov were
both authors during this time.