First Phase of the Industrial Revolution

Bases of the Industrial Revolution:
What we know as Industrial Revolution. Transformed the humanity and accelerates the rhythm of human history. Its apparition wasn’t immediately. It appeared slowly, in consequence of an old process made on occidental Europe. This process was composed by a diversity of innovations necessities.

Tecnic Invents:
In Tecnic invents the most important events were.

-The watch makers. Their processes of production were guided by Newton’s mathematics. To made their clocks and pendulums.

-The Optic Artifacts makers. Their innovative solutions needed more technology to improve on designing and producing their optics artifacts. This made machine makers to improve to in designing and producing high precision machines to build optic artifacts.

England’s World Leadership:
The most important event in here was the high number of immigrants wanting to live in England because of its fast progress. This helped to the textile industries to improve in fast production of innovative products to make easier, cheaper, and faster the production of clothing. At the end of the XVII Century, the Sea Navigation made British clothing products, a big part of England’s sea trading.

The Triumph Of The Machines:

The work mecanization.
This camed from the experience of the Textile makers tha gave solutions to increase the quantity of production and reduce costs.

Siderurgy and minery:
-The major change in the metal industries during the era of the Industrial Revolution was the replacement of organic fuels based on wood with fossil fuel based on coal. Much of this happened somewhat before the Industrial Revolution, based on innovations by Sir Clement Clerke and others from 1678, using coal reverberatory furnaces known as cupolas. These were operated by the flames, which contained carbon monoxide, playing on the ore and reducing the oxide to metal. This has the advantage that impurities (such as sulphur) in the coal do not migrate into the metal.

-Coal mining in Britain, particularly in South Wales started early. Before the steam engine, pits were often shallow bell pits following a seam of coal along the surface, which were abandoned as the coal was extracted. In other cases, if the geology was favourable, the coal was mined by means of an adit or drift mine driven into the side of a hill. Shaft mining was done in some areas, but the limiting factor was the problem of removing water. It could be done by hauling buckets of water up the shaft or to a sough (a tunnel driven into a hill to drain a mine). In either case, the water had to be discharged into a stream or ditch at a level where it could flow away by gravity.

Agricultural Revolution:

The Industrial Revolution helped the so-called agricultural revolution in which it took into account 2 aspects: the transformation of agricultural structures and new techniques of cultivation, which helped to focus and stimulate investment property.