It's All A Stain

Today we learned about the industrial revolution. The essential question was "What was 'revolutionary' about industrialization?" In the lesson we were separated into groups and given a field that was advanced upon in the revolution, to which they took notes on. The groups then shared their note with all the other groups. 

During the Industrial Revolution, the field of transportation drastically improved. Rail road travel became much more preferable when the steam engine, it allowed carriages to be pulled across rail road tracks. Land travel was greatly improved by the creation of the transcontinental rail road. The invention of the steam engine used to power vehicles removed the necessity to travel within bodies of water. Freighters powered by the steam engine increased the cargo carrying capability on ships and marine vehicles by 2000%. Robert Fulton invention of the steam engine boat (which had a max speed of 5 mph, no joke look it up), greatly increased commerce with land locked cities.With all of the efficient commerce, the global economy sky rocketed.

The other great improvements of the Industrial Revolution was in textiles and clothing manufacturing. With the invention of the flying shuttle, the water wheel and chemical coloring, the efficiency, the quality, and the speed in making textiles took a huge leap. The invention of the flying

shuttle by John Kay, greatly improved the weaving rate among the workers. Before the introduction of chemical coloring, the coloring of clothe was created using stale urine to provide all the colors of the clothe. The aforementioned water wheel and later steam engine also heavily improved on the speed of the creation of textiles. Before, they had to rely on water power generated from fast moving waters usually located more north.

 The Industrial Revolution revolutionized the way products were created, and how people lived their lives. gave the opportunity for great things, but also much more deadlier weapons to civilization. Without the inventions and revolutions of the Industrial Revolution, the world would a truly different place. Image citation: "Dye Vat." Flickr. Yahoo!, n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2014. .