Causes Of The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution did not happen with just one snap of a finger, or more importantly it did not “happen” (Mokyr, 1985). What took place in history was really a series of events, occurred in a span of time, in known localities, which subsequent historians bless a named with. The Industrial Revolution was a regional affair rather than a national, stressed by Hudson, 1989 as cited by Mokyr, 1985). Sidney Pollard (1981, 1985) prefers to view region that transcended national boundaries and that the European states share a common economic fate. The revolution that occurred took seventy years long, but despite the long period, changes that happen in Britain from 1760 and 1830 is comparably small in virtually every respect the changes that

One of this factor that help bring about the industrial revolution was the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain from the seventh century up to the nineteenth century. The Agricultural Revolution marked an enclosure movement in Britain (Perry, Chase, Jacob, Jacob & Von Laue, 1989). The Parliament passed laws that allowed landowners to claim off lands, which allowed these owners to have a better practice of new farming methods. Moreover, the process enclosure of formerly communal land for private use. However, the trend in the practice of the new agriculture led displacement for some farmers to migrate into rural areas or better yet another country, such as America or Australia. Additionally, there was an increase in agricultural productivity with the help of new technologies and knowledge in production occurred during sixteenth century to seventeenth century. Havinden, Jones, and Kerridge argued that there was a significant rise in the output of productivity occurred during the sixteenth century to seventeenth century, which was reformulated and expanded by Allen and Clark (Allen, 1999). Some of these machines that were created with technology were seed drill, improved reapers, plows, horse-drawn rakes, and threshers. As for the new knowledge for production, people were able to come up with cop rotation and soil mixing, the knowledge that the vegetable turnip is a food source that

"England is built upon an underground mountain of coal. Its exploitation was the motor-force in the revolution in production that created modern industrial society" (Levine, 1987). Britain has a geographic good luck because it was an island and never had been triumphantly invaded since 1066. In addition, the accessibility of the island provided a cheap form of transportation. Although being an island did wonders in the boost on the economic growth of Britain, it was not the same case in Ireland for the good internal transportation did not help in the economy. According Verley (1997, as cited Mokyr, 1985), the geography needs to be in hand with capital and technology for the natural navigable rivers in England, including Wales, it twice the size of the internal