AN AGE OF REVOLUTION
1) A. The Agrarian Revolution: Mechanical horse-draw reaper invented by Rev. Patrick Bell around 1828 in Scotland
B. The industrial Revolution: Cotton factory in Preston, Lancashire, in 1830. Private Collection
C. The French Revolution. Eugène Delacroix, Liberty leading the people, 1830. Musèe du Louvre, Paris, France.
4)technologies; inventions; sources of power; steam engine; manufacture; waterways; enclosure; improvements.
5) The Industrial and Agrarian Revolutions implied new technologies ans inventions.
The most important inventions regarded machinery for cloth-making, such as James Hargreaves's "splinning jenny" and Richard Arkwright's "water-frame".
The Industrial Revolution implied new sources of power and of trasport.
As a resul of the introduction of the steam engine (Watt's invention), new factories were built on the coal and iron fields of Lancashire, Yorkshire, central Scotland and South wales.
The new factories allowed Britain to manufacture cloth more cheaply than elsewhere, but also put many people out of work.
New waterways were built and road conditions were improved.
The Agrarian Revolution took two principal forms: the widespread enclosure of "open field" and common land to make larger, more efficient farms.
The Agrarian Revolution took improvements in the selective breeding of cattle to produce more meat, and in farming techniques such as crop rotation and mechanisation.