Tuesday, 4 October 2011

The Industrial Revolution - How it improved the adverage way of life

Revolutionary Inventions and key change factors of this period of time :

  • Steam Engines -
  1. Trains
  2. Boats
  3. Machinery such as Glass melting or sweing machines

    A Steam Train
  • Agriculture -
  1. Farming
  2. Mining
  3. Building transport pathways
  4. Bridges
  5. Cannals for the new boats
  • "The birth of the media" -
  1. For example, Jack the Ripper (1888) with the "Whitechaple Murders" was splashed all over the papers. These papers wer then able to be sent further than ever before due to the new improvements in transport and new pathways for the transport to follow. (Paper shown below)
Original London paper on Jack the Ripper

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