INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

I.CHOOSE IT

1. During industrialrevolution production became faster

2. England is birthplace of the industrial revolution.

3. Great Britain is an Island

4. Cotton gin was inventedby Eli Whitney

5. In 1830 the firstpassenger railway was operated

II.MATCH IT

1. John kay – Flyingshuttle

2. James watt – Newsteam engine

3. Faraday – Dynamo

4. Macadam – Road

5.  Humphrey davy – safety lamp

III.HEADINGS

1.Textile industry

a) What was the firstmomentum from the outburst of invention?

Cotton textile industries

b) By whom flying shuttlewass invented?

John kay

c) Who invented sewing machine?

Elias howe

d) When was cotton gininvented?

1793

2.Invention in powers

a) Who invented a newsteam engine in 1769?

James Watt

b) By whom safety lamp wasinvented?

Humphrey Davis

c) What did Bersemerinvented in 1855?

Method of making steel

d) Who introduced thepudding process for the purification of pig iron?

Henry Cort

IV.BRIEF

1. What is meant by Industrial revolution?

It refers to shift from anagrarian, handicraft, labour intensive economy into one dominated by machinemanufacturers factories and a free flow of capital.

2. What was the result of the expansion of commerce?

  • Foundationfor the rapid expansion of Trade.
  • Encouragethe scientists to invent machines.
  • Gavebirth to capitalism.
  • Thepeople produced goods on large scale.

3. Write a note on Revolution in agriculture?

  • The new farm machinery includedthe steel plough and harrow. Machines for reaping and threshing.
  • The practice of crop rotation wasadopted to maintain soil fertility.

4. What is the motive behind Socialism?

  • The motive behind socialism isthat there should be just distribution of wealth.
  • The gap between the rich and thepoor.

5. Who was Karl Marx? What was histheory?

  • KarlMarx who is a socialist of Germany.
  • Histheory is based on the assumption that production and physical forces have anintimate relationship, and the surplus value of products should go in favor ofthe working class.

V.ANSWERIN PARAGRAPH:

1. What were the causes for industrial revolution?

  • Theterm industrial revolution refers to the shift from an agrarian handicraft,labor intensive economic into one dominated by machine manufacture factors andthe free flow of capital.
  • Innovationin agricultural methods
  • Agriculturebecomes more and more capitalist enterprise.
  • Thedemand for English goods went on increasing.
  • Moreefficient agriculture and better food distribution.
  • Theprogress of science revolutionized the method of production.

2. What were the effects of Industrial Revolution?

  • Thechanges in agricultural production, business organization and technology.
  • Pollutionaffected the health of people.
  • Theindustrial found more profitable to employ woman and children in the factories.
  • Thesociety create two distinct classes, they are Capitalist and laborers.

THEPOLITICAL EFFECTS:

  • Thefactory acts passed in 1819, 1933 and 1847to improve the conditions oflaborers.
  • In1825 trade unions were organized to fight for their rights.

ECONOMICALEFFECTS:

  • Theestablishments of factories like Manchester, Lancashire, Birmingham andSheffield.
  • TheIndustrial Revolution made the “rich richer and poor poorer”
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3. Mention some important scientific inventions were made duringindustrial Revolution.

INDUSTRY NAME INVENTION YEAR
1. TEXTILE John Kay Eli Whitney Flying Shuttle Cotton Gin 1773 1793
2. STEAM James Watt   Faraday Redesigned Newcomen’s steam engine Dynamo 1769   1831
3. IRON AND STEEL John Seaton Humphrey Davis Improved Derby process Safety lamp 1760 1860
4. TRANSPORT John Macadam Macadamized roads  
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