ECN 110A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Steam Engine, History Of Transport, Spinning Jenny
Week 9 Lecture 1
Industrial Revolution
• By 1850, Britain had gone from being small peripheral country to major world power
o Britai is ol .16% of orld’s lad ass
o Britain produced 2/3 of coal output in the world
o Britai produed ½ of orld’s iro
o Britain also produed ½ of the orld’s otto
o Had largest navy
▪ Bigger than next two largest navies
o Britain had massive colonies
o Forced China to hand Hong Kong to England and forced them to allow Britain to
bring Opium from India to China
o By 1855, Chinese tariff revenues were collected by the colonial powers
o Britai did’t at to oe ito other outries
▪ They only wanted control of the world market
o Britai as the orld’s ajor tetile produer
o Britain had free trade arrangement with India
o Because of the Industrial Revolution, Northern England became the heart of
economic growth because all of the raw materials were there
▪ If Britai ere diided i half, North Eglad ould’e ee the plae
where the Industrial Revolution occurred
• Deelopet did’t our i Southern England during the
Industrial Revolution
▪ After World War I, the Southern part of England became the wealthier
part of the country again
▪ Life expectancy is 10 years higher in Southern England now than in
Northern England
Week 9 Lecture 2
Industrial Revolution
Textiles
• This Industry was the most important one during the Industrial Revolution
o Flying Shuttle was a huge development
o Spinning Jenny
▪ Developed by Hargreaves in 1769
▪ This replicated hand-spinning
▪ Took extremely long to spin a thread before this invention
▪ This invention spun 16 threads at the same time of spinning 1
o Water Frame
▪ Developed by Arkwright in 1769
▪ Another way of spinning cotton thread
▪ Used in factories and was initially powered by thread
▪ Uses rollers for spiig so it’s ery different from spinning jenny
▪ This makes strong yarn
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