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What:
'The Industrial Revolution' refers to a period of massive economic, technological, s ocial and cultural change which affected humans. At its simplest, a mainly agrarian world economy based on manual labor was transformed into one of industry and manufacturing by machines.  The developments beginning in Britain and then spreading to the rest of the world, including the United States.

CAUSES:

The end of feudalism changes economic relationships.

A higher population because of less disease and lower infant mortality allowed for a larger industrial workforce.

Inventions and the scientific revolution allowing for new technology.

Colonial trade networks.

The presence of all the required resources close together, which is why Britain was the first country to experience the full industrial revolution.

Culture of hard work, taking risks and developing ideas.

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Industrially and Economically

The invention of steam power, which replaced horses and water.

The improvement of iron making techniques allowing for vastly higher production levels and better material.

The textile industry was transformed by new machines ,again allowing for much higher production at a lower cost.

Developments in metallurgy and chemical production affected many industries.

New and quicker transport networks were created thanks to first canals and then railways, allowing products and materials to be moved cheaper and more efficiently.

The use of coal, and coal production, soared, replacing wood.

LUDOVICA

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Socially and Culturally

Rapid urbanization led to dense, cramped housing and living conditions, which spread disease, created vast new city dwelling populations, MUSHROOM TOWNS, and a new sort of social order

New city and factory cultures affecting family, like the child who was send to work very soon because they were little and unpaied.

Debates and laws regarding child labor, public health and working conditions.

ANTEA

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It was attended by famous people of the time, including Charles Darwin, Samuel Colt, the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson.
The Exhibition caused controversy as its opening approached. Some conservatives feared that the mass of visitors might become a revolutionary mob, whilst radicals such as Karl Marx saw the exhibition as an emblem of a capitalist fetishism of commodities.

EMMA

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The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, home to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, home to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, and was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in it.
The Great Exhibition building
It was three times larger than the size of St Paul's Cathedral.

After the exhibition, it was decided to relocate the Palace to an area of South London known as Penge Common.

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Some of the exhibits included: a massive hydraulic press , a steam hammer, counting machines, carpets, ribbons, printing machines, musical instruments, carriages, early versions of bicycles, agricultural machines, guns and watches.

The famous Koh-i-Noor diamond was on display at the Great Exhibition.

In the centre of the glass building stood a fountain constructed from pink glass. This was 27 feet high.

The Crystal Palace featured the first public toilet cubicles. The inventor of these, George Jennings, charged a penny. This is where the expression ‘spend a penny’ comes from.