1712

• Thomas Newcomen develops first workable steam engine

1760s

• James Watt applies steam technology to textile industry
• The dude that uses it in actual industrial purposes

1850s

• Britain becomes the world's largest textile manufacturer (majority of cotton imported from India)

By 1915

• 8% of England = Farmers

Quick Technology Brain Storm

• Clothes (sweaters/coats, pants, shirts, shoes)
• Backpacks
• Books
• Furniture (bed, blankets, chairs, desks)
• Instruments
• Jewelry
• Generally, standard of living goes up because material usage increases massively

Sampling of Developments

• Trains
• Coal
• Mass transportation
• Mass production
• Exception being digital technology/computers, biochemical/pharmaceutical technology, everything we have now was invented/produced during this time period

The Industrial Revolution History

• The Industrial Revolution is where coal is used for mass production
• Upper Classes
  • Nobility
    • How do they traditionally make money?
    • If you own land, you can pretty much make money from the peasants that use/live on your land
    • Not opposed to capitalism (investing into a business and returning with profit)
    • Some control over parliament
  • Nouveau Riche
    • The people who were wealthy but wanted the power of the nobility
    • How do they make money?
      • By investing in businesses, trade, being merchants or bankers
    • Wealthier than old nobility
    • Merge into old nobility by marrying into the nobility
  • Middle classes
    • Upper Middle Class
      • Professionals (people who have advanced education or are bankers)
        • Doctors, lawyers, bankers, businessmen, professors
    • Lower Middle Class
      • "White collar workers"
      • Work for wages
      • But don't do manual labor!
  • Lower classes
    • Working class
    • "They had total shit lives" -Mckelvy 2k16
    • Average work day: 12 hours on the job
    • No age requirement: Some may start as small as 7 or 8

The Industrial Revolution changes human society more than anything since our society has always been dependent on agriculture and has never relied on anything else.