many technological advances that helped it move along, and progress as much

as it did. The technological advances such as iron and coal led to many

inventions that changed society drastically during the Industrial Revolution.

Before the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe there was a thing

called the domestic system. This was the yearly things that a family had to do

to survive. For example the father of a family would have his daughters and

other siblings knit blankets, make brooms, Etc. He would sell them each year

and get supplies to make them for the next year. This all changes when the

technological advances of the Industrial Revolution took place.

The main things that were a huge part of the Industrial Revolution were

iron and coal. A major breakthrough of the two things occurred around 1709 in

Coalbrookedale. An english industrialist Abraham Darby successfully used

coke . Coke was a high carbon converted for of coal.(Microsoft Encarta 99').

He used coke to produce iron from iron ore. Using coke did away with the need

for charcoal, which was much more expensive. Around 1784 Englishman Henry

and managers paid the minimum amount that they could for a work force, often

who had earned income from spinning found the new factories taking away their

Around 1689 Thomas Savery created a steam engine to pump water from

invented a machine called the mule, which created a thinner thread and

expense. This helped the Industrial Revolution happen more quickly when

economies changes were taking place. One of the most obvious changes to

Watt formed an Engine- building contract with Matthew Boulton, a

changes and the people had to deal with them and survive them the best that

in transportation. Better transportation made it easier for society to become

that shapes iron into the desired shape or form. (Industrial Revolution, Sterns,

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