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Revision note: The Industrial Revolution and Its Global Impact

  • Began in Britain c. 1760; causes: agri revolution, capital (incl. colonial), coal + iron, markets, stability after 1688, inventions
  • Inventions: flying shuttle (Kay 1733), jenny (Hargreaves 1764), water frame (Arkwright 1769), mule (Crompton 1779), power loom (Cartwright 1785), Watt engine 1769
  • Railways: Stockton–Darlington 1825; Bombay–Thane 16 Apr 1853
  • Second IR from ~1870: steel, electricity, chemicals, oil; Germany, USA, Meiji Japan
  • Social: urbanisation, child labour, Factory Acts 1833, Luddites, Chartists, Marx 1848
  • India: deindustrialisation, raw material exporter, drain (Naoroji, R.C. Dutt)
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