Chapter 9

One thing that I learned from this chapter was that the industrial revolution was not localized in Europe, but spread across the entire glob...

One -ism that exists today that was introduced during the industrial revolution was the idea of communism. Communism is a form of complete s...

Both the United States and Great Britain saw the need for new legislation. The new laws made made up what was known as the legislative refor...

One invention that has revolutionized the way we get around is the device known as satellite navigation. It uses a network of satellites kno...

When the flying shuttle and the spinning jenny were first integrated into the textile industry, they were operated by hand. In 1769, a man n...

In 1764, weavers were working much faster than spinners as a direct result from the flying shuttle. As a result, a man named James Hargreave...

In 1733, a machinist named John Kay invented a machine that was meant modernize the cotton industry. He made a shuttle that sped back and fo...