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How did transportation have an international affect during the industrialization revolution?

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1. Between 1750 and 1900, Britain went through a period of rapid Industrial change and by the beginning of the twentieth century, was recognized as one of the richest and most powerful nations on Earth. Historians believe that this change was caused by a number of different factors. These factors were; Raw Materials, which were being used to make materials such as Iron and Coal; Population, which, at the time, was increasing rather rapidly; New Inventions, Which were being created for the benefit of the growing nation; Changes in Transport, Which allowed easy passage across the country; Changes in Farming, Where new tools and inventions were being created to help with the work and the British Empire, which was changing and developing all the time. Historians believe that population helped to cause the Industrial Revolution, as the Population was on the increase; more materials and food were needed to supply the country, as the current farming methods were not providing. Changes in farming link into this reasoning, also, as the Farming methods needed to be changed, so that the people of Britain could get enough materials. New Inventions could also be linked as new Inventions were being made to produce more resources for the growing population of Britain. Another factor that Historians believe helped cause the Industrial Revolution is the Changes in Transport that took places. New Methods of Transport were being invented at the start of The Revolution, and I know from my own knowledge that transport before The Revolution was very slow. Historians can link Raw Materials to The Changes in Transport, as the Materials that were made from the raw ones needed to be transported overseas to earn The British Empire money. Before The Industrial Revolution, transportation of these resources was hard. The roads that were used for travel were often bumpy and dangerous to travel on. But once new methods of Transport had been invented, such as Railways and Docks for Boats, the transportation of the materials became much easier. You could load your produce onto a train and get it delivered to a port or dock, where it could be shipped to wherever it needed to go with ease, rather than traveling by a dangerous road. The last cause for The Industrial Revolution is Britain’s Ever-Growing Empire, which was getting bigger, stronger and more powerful during The Revolution. This was thanks to some of the New Inventions that were created during The Industrial Revolution. From my own knowledge, I know that the increase in Britain’s Empire is partly due to their success in trading their cheap but valuable Raw materials in other parts of the world. The Industrial Revolution helped Britain to sell and trade more Raw Materials, as The New Inventions and Farming Methods were producing more Resources that could be traded. There are many different causes of The Industrial Revolution, but I think that population is the main cause. This is because if there wasn’t the sudden increase in the Population of Britain, there wouldn’t have needed to be a change in Farming Methods, or for The New Inventions to be thought about and then made.
2. Ocean travel and Rail Roads where effected greatly by steam engines. The manufacturing of products more rapidly by steam powered mechanism. Then there delivery around the world was greatly effected. Even the way sailing ships where manufactured and made faster by the industrialization process was significant. Since the early 18th century steam power has been set to a variety of practical uses. At first it was applied to reciprocating pumps, but from the 1780s rotative engines (i.e. those converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion) began to appear, driving factory machinery. At the turn of the 19th century, steam-powered transport on both sea and land began to make its appearance becoming ever more dominant as the century progressed. Steam engines can be said to have been the moving force behind the Industrial Revolution and saw widespread commercial use driving machinery in factories and mills, powering pumping stations and transport appliances such as railway locomotives, ships and road vehicles. Their use in agriculture led to an increase in the land available for cultivation.