The Industrial Revolution During The 20th Century

The industrial revolution was one of the biggest innovations from the 18th to 19th centuries. The Industrial Revolution changed the way the world was looking at altogether; new things were possible, things that no one ever could’ve dreamed of. In addition, creating new methods of production, manufacturing times were greatly lowered, meaning the product could be given to the public faster and in larger quantities. The Industrial Revolution was when the world finally began to move into the future, due to it, we have the world we live in today. The American economy was caught in transition in the event of the Civil War. What had been an almost purely agricultural economy in 1800 was in the first stages of an industrial revolution which would†¦show more content†¦When the Industrial Revolution reflects upon, not every change can be thought of in a blissful manner. Factories needed workers, and often time children were resorted to as cheap employees. Many children were killed during the Industrial Revolution; these children obviously didn’t have the motor skills to be working in factories. Eventually child labor laws were created to put restrictions on child labor exploiters. All the labor was done manually and required physical forces so the productivity was slow, an example was the cotton production, which involved only in person to clean the cotton by extracting the seed and produce threat, subsequence the demand of cotton John Kay invented the Flying shuttle to speed the process of weaving and the demand of threat. Then, because of the advance other inventors came with more innovated ideas. Another great invention was the spinning mule in 18th century invention that spun textile fibers into yarn by an intermittent process: in the draw stroke, the roving is pulled through and twisted; on the return it is wrapped onto the spindle. The steam engine began to