Agricultural and Industrial Development
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- 2. The invention of the steam engine revolutionised manufacturing and transport, and was later used to generate __________.
- 5. Most factory work was completed by these inventions, although these were monitored by unskilled workers who completed repetitive tasks.
- 7. __________ later developed an improved version that was more practical and powerful.
- 8. mills The first factories were...
- 9. __________supplies were vital to fuel the Industrial Revolution, and the ever-increasing demand for coal led to the opening of new mines and the deepening of older mines. The digging of deeper mines in turn required better pumping systems to keep water from flooding lower levels.
- 10. Steam engines were used not only in the __________ industry, but also in cotton-spinning factories, flour mills, breweries and sugar-cane crushing mills around the country.
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- 1. Inventions such as the spinning jenny, the water frame, the __________ __________ and Crompton’s mule were used cotton mills.
- 3. Prior to the development of the factory system, most manufacturing occurred in...
- 4. Two inventors, Thomas Savery (around 1698) and Thomas __________ (around 1710), developed early steam engines to pump water from mines.
- 6. The first machines were powered by this source.
- 11. __________production also increased as new methods to extract the metal from the iron ore were developed. Coal was used instead of charcoal in this process.