Please give me an answer about Industrial Revolution.?

Question

Name three scientific and/or technological achievements and the individual associated with each that occurred during the Industrial Revolution w/ a negative and postive impact.

Answer 1

Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine was an important step in providing industrial steam power amd ushered in the Industrial Revolution. Positive impact on industrialisation, but a negative effect on work conditions.

Richard Arkwright's spinning frame, revolutionised fabric production but again led to poor working conditions.

Henry Maudslay, while working for the Royal Arsenal, recognised the need for accurate repeatable machining, so that interchangeability could be achieved. A pre-cursor of our modern "throw-away" society.

Answer 2

The working conditions in the factories were terrible. Most of this stuff happened in the robber baron's heyday and there were no labor laws to protect workers. Guys who owned railroads and oil fields, like today had more power than the elected leaders and they used it to exploit as often as they could. Living conditions in industrial towns were also pretty bad. Lots of times people just grouped together and lived all piled up in places because it was necessary to be close to the factories for work and there simply wasn't a whole lot of development yet so it wasn't like everyone could just go and get their own place. Not to mention that they were all very very poor in spite of the prosperity of the companies that they worked for. I'm not sure on specifics here, but when you say protest and reform....I imagine labor unions forming and cases getting sent to the supreme court about labor issues. Like lochner v new york for instance which established the 40 hour work week. Before that people were working like 80 hours and no overtime it was brutal. Like every job was a sweatshop job. No idea what the British were doing. If I had to guess I'd say sipping tea, talking about the invisible hand and justifying to themselves investments that would help their bankers and hurt people who were powerless, like people needing loans to buy houses or people who work in sweatshops. I imagine after the reforms that it was harder for those companies to keep getting filthier rich so because they couldn't work Americans like slaves anymore in sweatshops and you know there's a lot of money in that. So we started having to look around the world for things to pilfer because we weren't planning on producing our own stuff as much anymore. Then we went into a millitary buildup that's lasted about oh I dunno a hundred or so years and basically became the bully of the world. We have to do this because it's a simple fact that someone has to make everything you want to buy. And that there aren't enough people wanting to sit in factories all day to make this stuff. I mean....people in the US practically rebelled against factory work because they felt it inhumane. So now we have people do it for us in far away places where we can't see the harm we are doing. Out of sight, out of mind. China back in the world trade organization = lead pain in your kids toys but at least your kids wont have to work in a factory.

Answer 3

I won't do your work for you, but I'll give you a start.
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
James Watt and the Steam Engine
The Assembly Line. (sorry, not sure about the inventor, I don't THINK it was Henry Ford, but it's a place to start.

Answer 4

Probably the most important was Isaac Watt inventing the steam engine. You can take it from there.