Britain was the first industrial nation. How and why?

Answer 1

They first made use of the mill and also started the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 2

Britain is a small island nation with few natural resources. Britain did have a lot of rain, lots of streams to power water wheels, and had widely leveraged the horse shoe which allows draft horses to pull in wet earth. They grew three crops a year, to include beans which put nitrogen back into the soil. The resulted in a surplus which could be traded. Britian became a trading nation with a growing navy (which eventually became the best in the world) and expanded worldwide. Colonies were established which provided markets for British products and sources of raw materials to feed the growing industrial machine. To expand takes money...and this is where Britian had a secret weapon. The government registered land for the purpose of taxing it and this registration allowed people to borrow against the ownership of the land. This morgage system was their secret weapon and resulted many people borrowing and investing money.

Answer 3

Brittain was the first industrial nation because James Watt knew the potential of a boiling kettle. It wasn't long after this that steam power lead Stevenson to build his Rocket and The Jenny, (first locomotives) and the powered Loom transformed the textile industry. If it wasn't for steam power then Faraday's electicity wouldn't have meant anything and neither ofcourse would Edison's lightbulb. Brittains powered railway and factories meant that it had an unrivalled infrastructure upon which to engineer a revolution.

Answer 4

Britain started out the clock making capital of the world, a fact often overlooked because they could never make enough to export them.
This need for clocks was due to the needness to know exactly when it was tea time. Trains and stoves naturally followed to allow people
and tea to be less late and more consistent. Britain ceased to be the industrial capital of the world around the Monty Python area when tea time became a less constant variable because something jolly good was on the telly.

Answer 5

In the eighteenth century, a series of inventions transformed the manufacture of cotton in England and gave rise to a new mode or production the factory system.