Main factors that caused Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.In 18th century , many factors that caused Industrial Revolution united.There were favorable political and legal system, the power of monarchy was limited , people could own their ideas.This gave a push for the second factor inventions and inventors.There were many new technological abilities which helped not only to develop transport and communication, but also made development in agriculture. Another factor is the natural resources. In Britain …show more content…
Rivers were not always easy to navigate and did not always flow where goods were needed. Canals are man-made waterways. They allowed goods to be transported straightly to a destination.From the 1740s, they are beginning to be built based on the needs of the growing industry, actively create toll roads.Britain was divided into a number of localities or parishes. People living in each parish were responsible for maintaining the roads. Six days every year parishioners helped repair roads. Most roads experienced heavy usage. Six days of repair a year was not enough to fix the roads adequately. There was no signposting and roads were difficult to navigate. Developed production and transportation of coal, which had been the main fuel of the industrial revolution.Since 1770s, wooden rails mines were replaced with iron, hence the already close to the railway construction. In the 1780s, there were the first ships introduced . Simultaneously, a sharp jump in the number of patents obtained.The new phase of the industrial revolution comes with the beginning of the XIX century. Significantly the role of foreign trade grew: it was already a money source for the British industry and it provided unlimited (or, if you like, cross-border) market expansion. Watt's t engine vanquish England. At the end