NATS 1775 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Benjamin Huntsman, Water Frame, Crucible Steel
4 Feb 2016
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New ways of working and living, created an entirely new industrial society. Large growth in the cotton, iron, and coal industries during the decades surrounding 1800. Britain blazed a pioneering path to industrial society while other countries are behind. Early factories in many countries were powered by:: water, animals, humans, not steam! Steam-powered cotton-spinning mills which employed 1,000 or more workers in 8 story factory. Adam smith used the term industry to define to a human attribute in the sense of skill, perseverance, diligence. Class was also an existing term, referring to school or college classes in traditional subjects. Karl marx argued that the culture of the working class was a creation of industry; a generation earlier no one could have expressed this thought in. English: the first industrial city: - london. Not only was it the county"s largest site of industry, london"s insatiable hungers and unquenchable thirsts helped transform england from a rural- agricultural economy to urban-industrial one.
