Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
  • In which John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution. While very few leaders were beheaded in the course of this one, it changed the lives of more people more dramatically than any of the political revolutions we've discussed. So, why did the Industrial Revolution happen around 1750 in the United Kingdom? Coal. Easily accessible coal, it turns out. All this, plus you'll finally learn the difference between James Watt and Thomas Newcomen, and will never again be caught telling people that your blender has a 900 Newcomen motor.
    Chapters:
    Introduction: The Industrial Revolution 00:00
    What Was the Industrial Revolution? 1:48
    Innovations in the British Textile Industry 2:38
    Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Europe? 4:08
    An Open Letter to the Steam Engine 4:57
    What was going on in China during the Industrial Revolution? 5:35
    European Advantages: High Wages and Low Fuel Costs 7:03
    What was going on in India during the Industrial Revolution? 9:28
    Credits 10:29
    Learn more about the Industrial Revolution in these Crash Course videos:
    The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course European History #24: • The Industrial Revolut...
    The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #21: • The Industrial Revolut...
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  • @aylacastolo5843
    @aylacastolo5843 4 года назад +4871

    Views:
    5% - Bored People
    5% - History Addicts
    90% - People cramming for an exam

    • @camppillow
      @camppillow 4 года назад +106

      perfect example of me dying! my homework of " *INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION* " is due tomorrow :p

    • @jaredalvarez890
      @jaredalvarez890 4 года назад +26

      @@camppillow mine is due tomorrow, I just need to know how geography helped the Industrial Revolution

    • @thingonathinginathing
      @thingonathinginathing 4 года назад +65

      History addict reporting in

    • @zkysk7672
      @zkysk7672 4 года назад +29

      I'm watching this for none of those reasons. I'm genuinely interested in the industrial revolution- because we are in one right now. Technology is changing everything, and there's a lot of similar patterns.

    • @Orangeboyhd
      @Orangeboyhd 4 года назад +33

      i fall in the 5% of history addicts

  • @autophaqy
    @autophaqy 4 года назад +4148

    who else is watching this while quarantined in your home for an online class assignment?

  • @mikhail7905
    @mikhail7905 7 лет назад +3642

    Who else had to watch this as a class assignment?

    • @vaselini
      @vaselini 5 лет назад +39

      John Getachew yup. I still remember the teacher slowing it down so that we could understand him

    • @mrduckyru
      @mrduckyru 4 года назад +19

      History assessment lol

    • @TR1PP531
      @TR1PP531 4 года назад +5

      Yep I do at ACA

    • @asmaamahran654
      @asmaamahran654 4 года назад +2

      uhhhhh more like a project

    • @coopermcewan1648
      @coopermcewan1648 4 года назад +1

      me

  • @1millionsubswithonly2video39
    @1millionsubswithonly2video39 4 года назад +1041

    Teacher: Explains Industrial Revolution in over 6 weeks
    Me: ... i still don't get it
    Me: Finds this video
    Me: Ohhhhhhhh yeah, i get it now
    Also me: Fails the Test

  • @mergieismoronic
    @mergieismoronic 5 лет назад +1651

    You exist?
    *I N D U S T R I A L R E V O L U T I O N*

    • @illiteratethug3305
      @illiteratethug3305 5 лет назад +21

      @Rhys Parry yes

    • @hannahkellaway
      @hannahkellaway 4 года назад +19

      Your iPhone?
      I N D U S T R I- Capitalism ... Plus industrial revolution

    • @dinonugget2238
      @dinonugget2238 4 года назад +3

      @@hannahkellaway
      H I S T O R Y
      Honestly I've never heard of capitalism I don't know.
      I'm in the 6th grade.

    • @RockSmithStudio
      @RockSmithStudio 4 года назад +3

      Ya. Also the digital revolution!

    • @fivesARC--5555
      @fivesARC--5555 4 года назад +1

      yep i thought the same thing

  • @JessWeng
    @JessWeng 9 лет назад +2009

    I worship to your videos before an exam

  • @idkdude27
    @idkdude27 7 лет назад +840

    Take a shot everytime he says industrial revolution

  • @andreasantos2492
    @andreasantos2492 4 года назад +633

    since we're all here because of online classes, y'all got the answers?

  • @moomoomachines7193
    @moomoomachines7193 5 лет назад +217

    6:33 R.I.P. Flowers. You will forever be remembered.

    • @TR1PP531
      @TR1PP531 4 года назад +11

      OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEEEEEEE BY THE DAWNS EARLY BRIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT

  • @cece5675
    @cece5675 4 года назад +298

    no one:
    john green: *I N D U S T R I A L R E V O L U T I O N*

  • @inportantspeedflash4401
    @inportantspeedflash4401 4 года назад +450

    You blink
    * I N D U S T R I A L R E V O L U T I O N*

  • @kareldolezel1293
    @kareldolezel1293 4 года назад +78

    The second half of the video is very simplistic.
    Firstly, Europe had a long history of mechanized production way before the steam engine and "cheap coal". Water powered and mechanized mills appeared in Europe as back as the 12th century. And there were aspects of industrialism way before the industrial revolution.
    For examle, let´s look at paper. Although invented in China in 105 AD, it was always a small production artisan process to make it. It´s only when it came to Europe that we first see economies of scale and mechanization. The first paper mill dates to 1276 Italy.
    When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in 1440, it was a matter of entrepreneurialism, not just individual genius or "making inventions". He studied in a university, traveled to Strasbourg, made a business deal with merchants who provided him with venture capital for the development. Which he then used to assemble a team of artisans, who provided several years of engineering and inventions of their own to make it happen. Trying to beat the competition breathing on their back... And of course, the only reason the printing press was ever useful was because by that time paper was produced in giant mills, where cloth rags were beaten to a paper pulp by water powered hammers.
    The printing press then fueled Renaissance and education, wich fueled inovation and so on.
    You mentioned how the textile industry started it all, but the "flying shuttle" was invented by John Kay in 1733 and the "spinning jenny" was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. The first textile factory of Comford Mill was built by Richard Arkwright in 1772 and was powered by water wheel.
    So by the time James Watt invented his steam engine in 1778, to make it´s impact, the industrial revolution already begun.

    • @tigrang1134
      @tigrang1134 4 года назад +5

      Wtf, y did u write all of that?!#$.?&*@#?

    • @reachfan88277
      @reachfan88277 4 года назад +1

      Bruh stfu you’re annoying omfg

  • @EmilyKardum
    @EmilyKardum 10 лет назад +83

    my teacher played this in history today and I was so happy when he told us that we'll be watching more episodes later on, it's amazing how much better school is when john green is involved

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 10 лет назад +3

      Like with pretty much everything that has to do with learning, the less boring it is, the faster and better you understand and assimilate it.

  • @pathetically
    @pathetically 4 года назад +210

    how did i just find out that this dude wrote The Fault in Our Stars

    • @taylor8153
      @taylor8153 4 года назад +8

      did he really?

    • @Good_Side
      @Good_Side 4 года назад +3

      @@taylor8153 it's been 5 months u don't need to respond

    • @staticchronos2780
      @staticchronos2780 4 года назад +2

      @@taylor8153 yeah, he did

    • @matiastoledo4201
      @matiastoledo4201 4 года назад +3

      He also wrote paper towers

    • @ky6517
      @ky6517 4 года назад +28

      Wait so THIS is the John Green who wrote that?? Oh wow.

  • @tigrang1134
    @tigrang1134 4 года назад +820

    People watching this:
    5%- history addicts
    95%- people forced to for online school

  • @martin.carmona
    @martin.carmona 4 года назад +291

    Covid 19 is why I’m here rn

  • @taylorluvstrack
    @taylorluvstrack 10 лет назад +121

    I'm upset that it took me halfway through my sophomore year to discover Crash Course. Thank you, John Green and the whole staff, not only helping me understand topics as a whole, but making me much more curious to learn more and get interested in the subject. My history textbook just doesn't have the same effect, needless to say.

  • @WillaDaKilla474
    @WillaDaKilla474 9 лет назад +796

    I half expected that when he ended the ramblings about how everything in our lives was due to the industrial revolution, he would say "unless you're the Mongols."

    • @zanderrose
      @zanderrose 7 лет назад +18

      After he mentioned plumbing, he should've said "unless you're the romans"

    • @VishrutKannan
      @VishrutKannan 6 лет назад +4

      Lol Mongols are the exceptionXD

    • @sophiacai8157
      @sophiacai8157 6 лет назад

      @Minecrew Hcrid NO.

    • @jiagengliu
      @jiagengliu 5 лет назад +1

      Well in this case Mongols are not an exception indeed :)

    • @Alex-ur8kd
      @Alex-ur8kd 5 лет назад +3

      Thanks the Mongols didn't reach England in 13th century, they were an unstoppable force.

  • @derpygrenade4517
    @derpygrenade4517 4 года назад +87

    Teacher: 11 minutes till the test
    Me:

  • @provokingpickles1108
    @provokingpickles1108 4 года назад +124

    my teacher literally just shows me John Green's videos and expects me to somehow understand everything there is to be know on this subject

  • @joshuadarrow
    @joshuadarrow 10 лет назад +32

    This is probably the best web series i have ever seen, history is a very under-appreciated subject.

  • @malina145
    @malina145 5 лет назад +425

    cramming for the ap tomorrow be like-

  • @rodolfobeguiristain
    @rodolfobeguiristain 8 лет назад +1137

    You live somewhere other than a farm? Industrial revolution!
    Oh I live in a cave!

  • @artywolve
    @artywolve 4 года назад +78

    I feel like there was a lot here about the outcome and not much about the process... The industrial revolution completely reformed British society, as people gathered from the countryside to form huge cities in order to work in factories. This sudden and unprecedented change came with all sorts of problems, and working conditions were horrendous, but the new working order and lowered costs of mass produced items like bread and clothes, along with their newly available education, gave former peasants the chance to rise and create the middle class. The railway network that drastically altered Europe paved the wartime supply lines, while steamboats improved cross-atlantic trade: things which had great impact on the people's way of life.
    Those dense industrial cities still exist, although their trade wealth is gone, factories replaced by offices; the clustered red brick houses still stand; the canals run between them; Ireland still makes expensive linen, and until the 80s Wales still mined coal. Even the co-operative is still running banks, supermarkets and funeral care.

  • @tradetor
    @tradetor 9 лет назад +896

    An open letter to steam engine:
    stop fking around and make half life 3 already!

    • @mayankraj6008
      @mayankraj6008 9 лет назад +22

      Half life 3 will be too glorious for source engine

    • @BattlegroundsFTW
      @BattlegroundsFTW 9 лет назад +2

      Mayank Raj That's why they're making Source 2 first

    • @NeroVuk
      @NeroVuk 9 лет назад +4

      They will prob make Dota 3 first, like Dota 2, but with hats. Top kek, lel.

    • @mayankraj6008
      @mayankraj6008 9 лет назад

      Nero Vuk They will more likey release half life 3 as so many people want it

    • @NeroVuk
      @NeroVuk 9 лет назад

      Mayank Raj so many people have wanted it for eons now.

  • @geraldineburgos6510
    @geraldineburgos6510 7 лет назад +29

    John sounds so enthusiastic when he speaks it makes me really want to pay attention when he talks about this stuff

  • @ThatSkyBirdAira
    @ThatSkyBirdAira 4 года назад +21

    Am I the only one who said "Aww!" when I saw WALL-E at 2:18? I love that little robot lol

    • @RonanBunny
      @RonanBunny 4 года назад

      Nope, I am also a fan of Wall•E

  • @RayDai_thecpum_bacon
    @RayDai_thecpum_bacon 8 лет назад +144

    1:37 I saw what you did there Mr. Green...

  • @thenoblecrab2998
    @thenoblecrab2998 5 лет назад +32

    “This machine kills fascists” had me dead in the vid

  • @Clutched392
    @Clutched392 4 года назад +66

    Me: is this a promotion for your T-shirts?
    John Green: no, this is *the mongols*

  • @aidan312
    @aidan312 4 года назад +44

    This 11 minute video probably taught me more than my teacher talking for an hour about the exact same topic

  • @michaelmnh
    @michaelmnh 5 лет назад +285

    Exam tomorrow lmao

  • @lucas8089
    @lucas8089 6 лет назад +12

    This is going to help me a lot with my homework. Good that history doesn't change so this video never gets outdated

  • @nads291
    @nads291 4 года назад +35

    this guy talking is making me hold my breath.

  • @JakeVoorhees
    @JakeVoorhees 7 лет назад +20

    Thanks again for all that you do John and the team, another awesome video. Cheers!

  • @Claudia-qg9dg
    @Claudia-qg9dg 8 лет назад +24

    2:21 there's a picture of the tesseract when he says "new energy sources" YESSSSSS

  • @christianailagan6328
    @christianailagan6328 8 лет назад +196

    this is my life saver, especially finals are coming up 😭

    • @bohan2843
      @bohan2843 8 лет назад +8

      +Christiana Ilagan good luck :)

    • @EaZePromo
      @EaZePromo 8 лет назад +1

      2 days and finals week for me

    • @Yk-mm6xt
      @Yk-mm6xt 8 лет назад +1

      +EaZe than get off of RUclips and start studying

    • @EaZePromo
      @EaZePromo 8 лет назад +5

      Amy kesselman
      This is studying lmao

    • @yusufsaquib2800
      @yusufsaquib2800 8 лет назад +3

      Same dude. I need this xD

  • @mrandmrsdon
    @mrandmrsdon 10 лет назад +16

    Thank you for your videos. I am a school teacher and I use these videos as the engagement activity when introducing new units. My sixth graders love the fast pace, humor, sarcasm, and story telling in these videos and they spur excellent class discussion about the unit. Most times I never get to any other activities after I show these. You guys rock!

  • @richujames8285
    @richujames8285 4 года назад +29

    00:00 sliding into them DMs and also my man sliding so hard knocked the earth out of orbit

  • @Td1ce
    @Td1ce 4 года назад +9

    im taking summerschool for US history and i cant tell you how much this guy has helped me

  • @ValenceAwesomeness
    @ValenceAwesomeness 10 лет назад +91

    I'm not sure how much I'm learning simply because I'm watching this for entertainment value. John Green, you've made my least favorite subject in high school my most favorite subscribed channel. Props to the rest of your staff as well.

  • @cassandraflores6193
    @cassandraflores6193 8 лет назад +15

    OMG!!!!! Thank you Stan and John for putting the TARDIS in there!!! You guys seriously make me like history so much more!!!

  • @piksa840
    @piksa840 4 года назад +33

    2019: John Green
    2020: John Quarantine!

  • @imperiumdivinity
    @imperiumdivinity 5 лет назад +1

    love how the 'energy source' in John's explanation was the Tesseract from the MCU. nice touch. and it brought back memories.

  • @Dogetor
    @Dogetor 9 лет назад +404

    John sorry but a TARDIS runs on the energy of a dying star!

    • @GeekInfusion
      @GeekInfusion 9 лет назад +9

      Wasn't that just to contact Rose in the parallel world? I'm pretty sure the Time Vortex is the heart of the TARDIS. It turned Rose in to Bad Wolf.

    • @Dogetor
      @Dogetor 9 лет назад +15

      In the parting of ways, yes it does say that. But in Journey to the center of the TARDIS, the dying star: "The Eye of Harmony" is said to have powered it, that was the whole focus of the episode.

    • @GeekInfusion
      @GeekInfusion 9 лет назад +5

      Oh yeah, that's right. I'd forgotten about that. So many good episodes :)

    • @owencooper5464
      @owencooper5464 9 лет назад +4

      Doge much time many star wow all dying

    • @DarkZide8
      @DarkZide8 9 лет назад +16

      Doge it is probably using that energy in order to fuel a steam engine ;)

  • @nicodemusedwards6931
    @nicodemusedwards6931 8 лет назад +40

    My skin, industrial revolution! My hair, industrial revolution! My black magic skills, industrial revolution!

  • @swiftie07swift35
    @swiftie07swift35 4 года назад +5

    The man who gets me through all the test not all heroes wear capes.

  • @Evelighte
    @Evelighte 5 лет назад +2

    even my AP world teacher shows us your vids every time we are working on a topic that you have a video on, and he even gives us homework on it. thanks for the year of easy, 5 point homework assignments!! 👍👍👍

  • @mbmotsoeneng8646
    @mbmotsoeneng8646 8 лет назад +8

    I have spent the past two days watching this World History series and I have found it to be educational and entertaining including the episode on wait for it.....The Monguls. I wish John was high school teacher for like every subject my report cards would have looked better.

  • @Dan-ei2be
    @Dan-ei2be 8 лет назад +255

    Anyone else feel he talks really fast, I have to slow down the video LOL

    • @niclouds5292
      @niclouds5292 8 лет назад +22

      I speed him up to 1.25.+Hi

    • @IainRosen
      @IainRosen 8 лет назад +36

      +Hi That's why it's called a crash course

    • @insiya4561
      @insiya4561 8 лет назад +6

      +Hi IKKKRRRR!!! He speaks so fast that he doesn't have time to take a breath.

    • @misterw236
      @misterw236 8 лет назад +7

      +Hi I struggle with his fast pace as well. I would watch a video twice as long if he spoke at half the pace. I need time to process what's being said.

    • @machilis1999
      @machilis1999 7 лет назад +2

      +GC W i watch his videos twice always😂

  • @hastytkd5768
    @hastytkd5768 4 года назад +9

    I watch this stuff for fun but now I have an exam.

  • @abigailfrierson5965
    @abigailfrierson5965 4 года назад +12

    good luck to everyone taking the apwh exam tomorrow!

  • @rlbadger1698
    @rlbadger1698 8 лет назад +18

    If you read down the comments you get arguments about coal production and economic environments, ect.. But the one thing you don't get is the one glaring difference from every where else. The concept, idea, and craze (fad) of invention to get rich. The spinning jenny was the first invention to make it's inventor rich. The idea that you could invent something and get rich was what made the industrial revolution.

    • @KN-vg3yz
      @KN-vg3yz 5 лет назад

      BALLS LIKE ITS FIFA

  • @jamieobree1181
    @jamieobree1181 9 лет назад +77

    I feel there is enough history in the world that Europe's should not be appreciated less, but rather the rest of the world's be appreciated more. I love learning about cultures and regions sadly neglected by European education, but I feel that belittling Europe's greatest events (like the Industrial Revolution) is not the answer. Instead emphasise other world events like the Arabic invention of the modern numerical system, the core of all modern science (try calculas in Roman Numerals :P). Or the incredible influence of African-American musicians on modern music going back to the Blues. No one need be insulted, some just need more praise.

    • @paulk314
      @paulk314 8 лет назад +17

      The Arabs did not invent the modern numeric system. It was invented by Indian mathematicians and adopted by Persians.

    • @ananyaupadhya1974
      @ananyaupadhya1974 5 лет назад +6

      Arabic numerals were invented by the Guptas in India and transmitted to Europe by the Arabs, hence earning them the name.

    • @RetroCountryRules
      @RetroCountryRules 5 лет назад

      Stop misspelling "calculus" !

  • @ragestarshine5735
    @ragestarshine5735 7 лет назад +7

    i'll be legit sad when this series ends

  • @Kathy-pf5ms
    @Kathy-pf5ms 4 года назад +3

    I have two essays due today, both history essays. I appreciate these videos so much lol.

  • @sinder9737
    @sinder9737 9 лет назад +11

    **Insert comment nitpicking some minor aspect of the video here**
    **insert comment complaining about some aspect of history left out of the video**
    **insert comment on self-hating his own history or the western world here**

  • @RyanZentmyer
    @RyanZentmyer 10 лет назад +4

    My teacher makes us cite everything that's not common knowledge but I learned so much from AP World History last year that isn't common knowledge and I no longer have the textbook so this video is a lifesaver, both as a review and a source that I can cite for my paper.

  • @AbraxasCombatSquirrel
    @AbraxasCombatSquirrel 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you Industrial Revolution for making Crash Course possible to produce

  • @fclp67
    @fclp67 4 года назад +2

    honestly that before the intro, sequence was amazing

  • @multimoron11
    @multimoron11 7 лет назад +4

    The production quality of this channel is so god damn high

  • @idontgetit2349
    @idontgetit2349 4 года назад +22

    class assignment during coronavirus :(

  • @x.o.x.o.j.u.l.e.s
    @x.o.x.o.j.u.l.e.s 7 месяцев назад +2

    I cant believe this was made 11 years ago and i actually like watching it... I was 5 when this video came out 😆

  • @josephan5159
    @josephan5159 6 лет назад +2

    This guy makes history fun

  • @sneharoy009
    @sneharoy009 7 лет назад +7

    I think a major factor that led the British to industrialize first was the fact that they were surrounded by water , hence transportation was easy.

  • @Techtips200
    @Techtips200 7 лет назад +55

    can u make a video on what goes behind the scenes in making these awesome videos

  • @reynacontreras7768
    @reynacontreras7768 Год назад +2

    Thank you John Green you are helping me ace my test (ace means score A+).

  • @soullesspacifistofficial
    @soullesspacifistofficial 5 лет назад +2

    So useful! Going to keep using this channel for all my studying needs!

  • @brightmal
    @brightmal 9 лет назад +5

    Another look at why the industrial era kicked off in Europe is the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel". I strongly advise reading it.

  • @gavine2363
    @gavine2363 Год назад +4

    I love how he goes into how the East has also made incredible developments throughout history. Everyone says Gutenberg was first to mass produce paper in 1400-1500 but the east beat us to it in 800-900

  • @tomppa327
    @tomppa327 7 лет назад +1

    This video was awesome! Good information in a form that was easy to understand. One of the best channels in You Tube!

  • @graceparsons6083
    @graceparsons6083 6 лет назад

    You are literally my hero!!!! I should have been watching these vids from day 1 instead of trying to understand my Professor's beyond horrible lectures ... Seriously thank you for saving my grades

  • @kayla-spam-8276
    @kayla-spam-8276 4 года назад +15

    bed? *industrial revolution*
    electronics? *industrial revolution*
    prescription? *industrial revolution*
    hotel? *trivago*

  • @davidmedlin8562
    @davidmedlin8562 Год назад +3

    Just love history and John Greene

  • @nikolakonecna7070
    @nikolakonecna7070 6 лет назад

    Industrial revolution knowledge helped me to an A in Social politics exam...I love how everything is connected :-)

  • @ammaryusuf7392
    @ammaryusuf7392 6 лет назад

    the first part was really specific. I love your channel. keep making videos!

  • @artemy8450
    @artemy8450 7 лет назад +76

    I thought the kid at 1:07 had a bong

  • @abcslayer2722
    @abcslayer2722 5 лет назад +4

    Thank you for mentioning China

  • @ellapainter4063
    @ellapainter4063 7 лет назад +2

    very useful thx i needed this for an exam

  • @UndercoverLemon
    @UndercoverLemon 8 лет назад +1

    John Green, the advertisement wasn't shameless, it was worthy. I would most definitely support crash course and buy the shirt if I didn't live in a third world country where buying online goodies isn't very easy. Anyway, much love, respect and emotional support for what you guys have been doing.

  • @torres6490
    @torres6490 5 лет назад +3

    Love the way you threw that promotion in there. Also, love you videos!!

  • @Xhirix
    @Xhirix 5 лет назад +10

    8:07 That took me a few seconds to process

  • @investigate711
    @investigate711 7 лет назад

    I will forever thank you guys for giving me summary's of everything the day before an exam

  • @TheKarver21
    @TheKarver21 4 года назад

    I just used your video in my HIST 1301 class! My students love you!

  • @anxme_o2572
    @anxme_o2572 4 года назад +4

    This dude really be hitting everything
    00:01
    6:32

  • @jenniferruberio7451
    @jenniferruberio7451 4 года назад +3

    Yes I am quarantined at home studying for a discussion board. It's our first week online.

  • @sumirunihon
    @sumirunihon 7 лет назад +31

    spoiler alert the flowers are real

  • @anupamatiwari293
    @anupamatiwari293 6 лет назад

    thank you very much!this really helped me in my debate about the industrial revolution

  • @sophiemontecalvo7503
    @sophiemontecalvo7503 8 лет назад +3

    Can you explain more deeply the spinning jenny and waterframe? I am doing an essay about new inventions of the Industrial Revolution and could use some more info on them. Thanks!

  • @cranten2631
    @cranten2631 5 лет назад +7

    how is my project? The
    Industrial
    Revolution
    The industrial revolution was the transition to new manufacturing ways in the period of 1760-1840.
    This transition included going from products made by hand to by machines.
    The machines were running on steam power, this made the production of products easier. The steam engine was used in mining, used to draw water from the ground so the mines don't flood. The steam engine was perfected by James Watt, and in honor of him, they named a unit of power after him.
    The industrial revolution started in Great Britain and quickly spread across Europe and the Americas. Also, many technological innovations were originally British ideas. Britain became the worlds leading commercial nation by the mid-18th century from trading with colonies in North America and the Caribbean.
    The industrial revolution influenced most of the modern things today (cars, television, phones etc.). One reason Great Britain was the worlds leading commercial nation was the high wages, Britain also had coal which made steam engines run with could be paid for by the high wages.
    Before the industrial revolution, 80% of the world's population was in farming to keep its self and the other 20% from starving. Today less than 1% of people are in farming.
    The invention of the flying shuttle by John Kay increased the speed of weaving which created a demand for yarn, which led to the creation of the Spinning Jenny and the water frame. The steam engine made the flying shuttle better, which needed the Spinning Jenny and the water frame to improve too.
    The steam engine powered trains and steamboats and also made more efficient cotton mills. For the first time, other chemicals besides stale urine were being used to bleach clothes people wore. The first of these chemicals was sulfuric acid.
    Why did Britain experience the industrial revolution first? Its an argument between people, some argue that science and invention that made the creation of these technologies possible. Another argument is Freer political institutions encouraged innovation and strong property rights which created incentives for inventors. Also, there is its small population, and small populations need labor-saving inventions.
    The steam engine has never really been approved upon since James Watt changed it. almost all energy run on a steam engine, whether its a nuclear or coal power its just basically a steam engine.
    Britain had two major advantages in the industrial revolution.
    1: coal, this is because the thing that made the industrial revolution go was a steam engine which ran on coal.
    2: wages, Britain had the highest wages in the world, most likely due to the black death killing off a lot of its population, so it tightened labor market to influence them to want to work with the high wages.

  • @will.aldrich
    @will.aldrich 4 года назад +3

    3:57 that was one hell of a plug.

  • @elodiemoreau2329
    @elodiemoreau2329 5 лет назад +27

    Thank you for all the crash course videos you have done. They are very useful and pleasant. But ı am just surprised that you haven't mentioned once the factor of colonisation that had a huge impact on the development of industrial revolution. Is that not a considerable point that determine in which countries it could happen first?

  • @WobblyDave72
    @WobblyDave72 8 лет назад +6

    I live in Telford, where it all started - (technically in Coalbrookdale) - which is odd because very few people outside the UK have heard of it or know of its signficance. Without the iron, coal and water in the same place - you needed the smelted iron in order make the strength behind the machines to increase the industrialization. Cast iron was just too brittle and impure to be useful. Surely it is the convergence of these elements together that started it all off?

  • @ampiiri210
    @ampiiri210 8 лет назад +4

    I love how you guys make these funny and add references to other things here and there in the videos. Makes them far more entertaining and memorable!

    • @aaqibaliey477
      @aaqibaliey477 5 лет назад +1

      Oh ! It means you are watching this for entertainment rather than to know something about industrialization!!!!!!

  • @llamas_attack
    @llamas_attack 7 лет назад +84

    *sees flower pot and screams in terror* IN THIS WORLD IT'S INDUSTRIALIZE OR BE INDUSTRIALIZED
    (I know it's not the exact sprite, but it was close enough to make me uncomfortable the entire video)

    • @llamas_attack
      @llamas_attack 7 лет назад +6

      +Giovanni Garcia I was hoping someone would get the reference, but I guess not enough gamers watch these...

    • @razberrymist9475
      @razberrymist9475 7 лет назад +8

      FLOWEY WILL INDUSTRIALIZE US ALL,L

    • @llamas_attack
      @llamas_attack 7 лет назад +5

      +Razberry Mist THANK YOU!!!

    • @carolineh.1925
      @carolineh.1925 7 лет назад +9

      mangaZwolf I feel like this is Undertale. I don't know why.

    • @PiggyGamingTH
      @PiggyGamingTH 7 лет назад +3

      I was gonna comment something about this, but I couldn't think of what to say. Glad someone else did it for me :D

  • @pedroheberle6665
    @pedroheberle6665 6 лет назад +5

    Great video, John, just one objection: it was iron rather than steel that, along with coal, fueled the whole thing up in the beginning, including that virtuous railroad cycle that you mentioned - and that for the better part of the nineteenth century. My source is Hobsbawm, who claims that even the "Age of Capital" (ending in 1875) was still an age of iron, not one of steel.

  • @becton98
    @becton98 8 лет назад +70

    It annoys me how he used the words Britain and England interchangeably , at one point when talking about coal production he said that england had large deposits of coal near the surface, but so did wales, in fact welsh coal was used in all the coal powered ships in the pre ww1 fleet due to the fact it burns whilst damp and leaves almost no ash, thus better for steam engines, plus during the war industrial centers where targets for german bombers, it was much harder to reach wales because of how remote it was you had to fly around the coast or over the island and then find a mine, so welsh mines stayed in use more of the time, he should have recognised the difference between england and britain.

    • @niclouds5292
      @niclouds5292 8 лет назад +6

      I can see how annoying that would be, I am from Australia and I make the same mistakes out of ignorance and bad habits. +becton98

    • @becton98
      @becton98 8 лет назад +9

      Ni Clouds
      The generalisation doesnt bother me, i dont know the names of all the australian territorys, but hes educating so details matter

    • @niclouds5292
      @niclouds5292 8 лет назад

      becton98
      Definitely, as i said i make the same mistake so he is reinforcing my bad habit.
      I have no idea why i made the comment about personal annoyance... i blame mary jane.

    • @becton98
      @becton98 8 лет назад +1

      Ni Clouds
      always something with that woman

    • @cutterrebol3983
      @cutterrebol3983 8 лет назад +2

      +becton98 If you know so much about history why do you even bother watching his videos?

  • @pollograssopollo
    @pollograssopollo 10 лет назад +34

    People debate about your euro/anti-euro centrism, because you put so much effort every episode into talking about how europe/US/rest of the world isn't superior to the others, and how unbiased you are.
    It's just moralistic, ethinic-prude, prig behaviour* .
    The topic is the industrial revolution that happened in Britain? "Hey, Hey, better spend 1 tenth of the episode stating that british aren't any better than others! Just to be sure that nobody on the internet thinks that we are euro-centristic".
    Result? People debate about you euro/anti-euro centrism rather than talking about history.
    God, i like how you show the world perspective. Clarifying that it didn't happen in Asia even though it was as advanced as GB for this and that reason, and that the revolution is due to a global interconnection of trades is stating facts and causal links, which is the reason people find history interesting. You are already blinking both eyes to whoever has a "we western-country-people are not any superior to anybody else" pride (europe, america and australia is your audience i guess), which isn't egalitarian, it's western self-blame. Exaclty as how some white people is scared to say "black man" even when is context relevant fearing to be exposed as a racist. Which in itself is even more racist.
    *(sorry for the long list of adjectives, i'm not a native english speaker and i don't know the sligh difference of those words)

  • @studyhafufo8550
    @studyhafufo8550 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks to this video I got an A+ on my test about the industrial revolution.