Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Substance Abuse, Inventory Control, Asia-Pacific
5 Apr 2017
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Industry is a key component of our economy. A series of inventions (technologies) that transformed manufacturing: large use of energy source (i. e. coal) Before wood as the main source of energy. Coal changed the worlds energy usage because of industry"s usage: development of the steam engine (1763, introduction of new machines and factories, development of new transport links. Example: riverlines: accumulated inventions over a period of time. Does not mean that before the industrial revolution there were no industries: they aware in the simplistic form bread making, etc. Between mid-18th and mid-20th centuries, industrial geography of england dramatically transformed. England was the first industrial area or hearth of the ir. Why was england first: ir was triggered by rapid onset of new and stable political, legal, and economic institutions throughout much of the 17th century europe. Required a lot of energy coal was option. 1802 health and moral act & first battery. Not overnight: one thing after the other.
