Terms/Concepts
• Industry• Cottage industry• Industrial Revolution• 6 Key industries impacted by the
Industrial Revolution– Coal, Iron, Transportation, Textiles,
Chemicals and Food processing
• 3 Industrial Regions
What is Industry?
• Industry =– the manufacturing of goods in a factory
• Originated in northern England and southern Scotland during 1750-1800– Diffused in the 1800s to Europe and
North America– 1900s other regions
Origins of the Industrial Revolution
• Prior to the Industrial Revolution people made tools and equipment in their own homes or obtained from the local village
• Cottage industry system– Home – based manufacturing
Origins of the Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Revolution– A series of improvements in industrial
technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
• Widespread • Social, economic and political inventions• Diffused gradually (did not happen
overnight!)
• Term is used to define the process that began (hearth) in the United Kingdom in the late 1700sTransformation of an Industry
Invention of steam engine most important to the development offactories
Transformation of Key Industries
• 6 Key Industries impacted by the Industrial Revolution– Iron– Coal– Transportation– Textiles– Chemicals– Food processing
Diffusion of Railroads
Distribution of Industry
• The major industrial regions are concentrated in three of the nine world regions.– Europe– East Asia– North America