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| he was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom. |
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| he was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using production systems. |
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| George Stephenson's Rocket |
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| The Rocket was the most advanced steam engine of its day. It was built for the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best and most competent design. |
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| was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread abroad |
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| Their main object is to separate soldiers from the civilian population and reinforce discipline, training and espirit de corps. |
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| The Great Exhibition of 1851 |
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| It was the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to become a popular 19th-century feature. was organized by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Henry, George Wallis, Charles Dilike and other members of the Royal society for the Encouragment of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as a celebration of modernindustrial technology and design. |
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Continental Industrialization
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| Industrialization arrived on the continent and in the United States later than in England, and developed in fits and starts, in contrast to its explosive origins in Britain |
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| Differences Between British And Continental Industrialization |
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Britain had led industrial development, and had an early lead over Continental Europe, which was slow to adopt changes in technology until proven by British success. |
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| was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. |
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| Edwin Chadwick And Sanitary Reform |
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| was an English social reformer, noted for his work to reform the Poor Laws and improve sanitary conditions conditions and public health.Chadwick took up the question of sanitation in conjunction with DrThomas Southwood Smith. Their joint efforts produced a salutary improvement in the public health. |
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| New Social Classes of the Industrial Revolution |
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| was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and culural conditions of the times.Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth. |
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| Chartism And The People's Charter |
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| Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world.Was a movement for political and social reform Its leaders have often been described as either "physical force" or "moral force" leaders, depending upon their attitudes to violent protest. |
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