NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stellar Population, Mercantilism
12 Dec 2019
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Low quality: characteristics of first industrial revolution. England"s population doubled in size: 5. 5m at the end of 17th century; by the end of 18th population, 9m. Leads to scarcity of resources like land. Development of new technologies and methods of production created to help sustain growing population. Major changes in a shift to machine production; machines operated by water and steam power; factory system of production. Rise of factories, factories include machines and technology, the transition to labours. Changes for the labour class - how much they were paid or how they felt. Bottleneck- problem needs to be fixed, to fix roads, a solution would be cannal and railways. Scarcity of resources: wood on land which increasingly population. Features of the industrial revolution: new energy sources. One major development in first industrial age is shift from renewable to non renewable energy source.
