How Technology and Transportation Changed The World

          This week in class we have been talking about "What is so 'revolutionary' about the Industrial Revolution.". We learned that there are 4 Ingredients to Industrialization. They are People, Resources, Technology and Transportation.  We worked in groups and took notes on one of the subjects, then shared our notes to the class. After taking notes, the two ingredients that stuck out to me were technology and transportation.
         
          During the industrial revolution, many new and innovative machines came about. As helpful as these new machines are, they do have some negatives. One new machine is the Steam Engine. The Steam Engine used coal to pump water out of mines, fuel boats and fuel locomotives. Another new invention was Improved Iron. Abraham Darby used coal to smelt iron and separate it from it's ore to remove impurities from coal. This iron was used to build railroads. It helped people produce better quality and less expensive iron. On the downside of these new inventions. there was a lot more pollution. Also, the machines were doing the jobs that people used to do so people started to lose their jobs. Some innovations in textiles include John Kay's Flying Shuttle, which outpaced the spinners allowing a single weaver to weave wider fabrics. Also, there was the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame, allowing better and quicker textile production. Link to Industrial Revolution Inventions video

Spinning Jenny 1769
http://deanqdrummonds.blogspot.com/2011/09/spinning-jenny-1769.html

        

         
          There was also a lot of new transportation during the Industrial Revolution. One new invention was the Steam Locomotive. This steam powered train pulls carriages along tracks, moving goods across land. After building the Steam Locomotive there were more railroads created throughout Europe and North America. Another invention was the Steam Boat. The Steam Boat enabled faster shipping. It could carry 10 to 20 times the amount of a wooden ship and travels at an above average pace. With these new innovations there was faster shipping, more goods going to different places and more jobs provided. However there are a few negatives to great innovations. One negative is pollution from coal. A few more are price raises in goods, loss of farmland and local economies were hurt because goods were being shipped to other places.

Steam Locomotive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive