First Industrial Revolution (jan 1, 1760 – jan 1, 1840)
Description:
- Focused on chemicals, electricity, precision machinery, the telegraph, telephone, rubber and printing- Extraction of nonrenewable resources altered landscape
- Sewers and industrial waste emptied into rivers
- Smoke from coal-fired industries and domestic use polluted air
- The importance of agriculture shrank
- Money became the basis of wealth, not land
- Urbanization->greater population in cities->overcrowded, unsanitary->low life expectancy
- Terrible working conditions
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Date:
jan 1, 1760
jan 1, 1840
~ 80 years