How Did The Changes During The Industrial Revolution

Before the late 1700’s products and textiles were all made by human and or animal power. It was an expensive labor intensive process making the goods by hand. Before industrialization people depended on agriculture to support themselves. When the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain in the late 1700’s it changed the way for how goods were made. New inventions were created and factories were built making work much easier. It also cause problems with pollution and lead to many deaths do to terrible working conditions that were endured by factory workers until later in the revolution when the assembly line was made. Last the machines were very dangerous and had no safety precautions unlike today. While the Industrial Revolution had its problems, ultimately it was beneficial because new inventions caused prices to drop, new products and patterns were made, and offer more job opportunities.

This happened because new inventions were made, making things more efficient. James Hargreaves invented a machine called the Spinning jenny, making the spinning process much faster than doing it by hand. With just this it made the cottage industry inefficient. Edmund cartwright saw that the spinning Jenny was producing more than the works to keep up with so he invented the water-powered loom that could keep up with the speed of the spinning jenny, making cloth more cheaply and efficient. James watt’s steam engine brought new efficiency to textile production. Soon the steam engine spread to cotton mills throughout Great Britain. When all the machines were introduced it took less time than making it by hand and they were producing more making the price of already cheap cotton good became even cheaper and more people could afford it. The industrial revolution was beneficial because new inventions caused the price to