The Industrial Revolution happened in the mid-1700s. It came after the Scientific Revolution, which had many big innovations like telescopes, microscopes, and thermometers. Many people were eager to participate in the Industrial Revolution. Most people worked similar jobs on farms and were unhappy. They had bad hours, a repetitive life, and didn’t make much money. The Industrial Revolution offered new jobs with better wages, more efficient manufacturing, and advanced technology. The Revolution was going to change the world in a small matter of time. Although there are many factors, the main things that contributed to the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in Britain were their good geographical location and their access to resources. One of the biggest factors in the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in Britain was geography because it was an island, and they had colonies producing goods …show more content…
Britain had multiple types of resources that powered machines and could make goods. Some of these resources were coal, wool, iron, cotton, lead, and tin (Doc 4). This meant they could mass produce machine made goods powered by coal, and expensive goods and textiles like wool, iron, cotton, lead, and tin. Products were being made at a rapid rate because of these. When word got out about this new way of working and new job offerings, people left their farm jobs to work in factories. The high wages that were to be made led people to transfer (Doc 2). When industrialization started, people left their farm jobs to join the industrial, factory jobs. Many employees were needed to operate all the different parts of the industrialization. Each part of the machine process needed multiple people, and with all these people some could work nights, and others could work during the