Industrial Revolution Research Paper

The Industrial Revolution was a significant factor in the shaping of modern civilizations. The Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. Most products today are made by industrialized nations, which use the method of mass production, by people (and sometimes, robots) working on assembly lines using power-driven machines. People in the early days had no such technology or machinery to mass produce products. They spent long hours of hand labor even on simple objects. The power or energy the people used to make their products came from themselves and animals. This Industrial Revolution was given its name because how machines changed people’s methods of manufacture …show more content…
Each year the Industrial Revolution grew as new invention and manufacturing processes got better and productivity increased. Two things that will always be closely related are commerce and industry. Expanding commerce affects industry, sometimes one is ahead and sometimes it’s the other, but the other is always trying to catch up. Beginning in about 1400, world commerce grew and changed so greatly that writers sometimes use the term "commercial revolution" to describe the economic progress of the next three and a half centuries. With the Crusades it opened up the door to different riches of the East to Western Europe and America was discovered. By 1750 large quantities of goods were being exchanged among the European nations, and there was a demand for more goods than were being produced. Just as it’s seen today, when the latest or hot item comes out companies have to find a way to meet the demand of the product that they are …show more content…
The building of canals and railways was a must to move the heavy goods across water and land. The canals connected the main water ways to small towns, and the boat could carry more goods than a single horse. In some places where no water was located mine owners would use wooden or iron rails to transport their goods. The shipping methods used were faster and took last man and horse power. With George Stephenson's locomotive and Robert Fulton's steamboat this marked the beginning of modern transportation. This made products affordable and put it within reach of people many miles away from cities or factories. Many shipping and transport companies today learned from what they did. Pack as much on a shipment and find the fastest route to get it to the

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