Thesis

How the industrial revolution is revolutionary and how it works.

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What’s the point of a revolution if there will be another better revolution following? We’ve seen it happen several times “Hey guys we just came out with a video casset! Buy it now it’s the new popular thing you’re a nobody with out it!” … 2 years pass by “Quick throw out the old and in with the new buy a DvD player more compact than a casset and they are no longer in black in white buy now!” another few years later “Check out our new blue ray with super high def! You can see it like its real! Its better than the DvD” This happened in the early 1800’s with artificial rivers the government started to build them so they could travel by boat rather than by horse or walking but then only 40 years later the locomotive came to be and the money spent on artificial canals became useless.

After...
Did the industrial revolution have a lasting impact on today or was it quickly replaced by another revolution.

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"Artificial rivers started becoming popular around the early 1800s such as James river and the Middlesex river. But railroads in the 1840s and 1850s provided cheaper and more flexible alternative than canals.'

Question
Why bother making something if just a couple of decades later something bigger and better comes along to replace the old thing.

Comment
The government spent so much money on artificial canals thinking it would be the new best method of travel but then the railroad came to be and all that money was wasted on canals. then in
1878 the car came and then all the money on the trains were put to waste.

Citation

Arnold, James and Roberta Wiener. A Turning Point in History Danbury, Connecticut: scholastic library published in 2005

I found this book in the library to be very helpful and it had the origin of the Indrustrial revolution. It also had a lot of inventions and the inventors of the inventions such as the steam boat was made by John Fitch and he had his own ferry service.

Good day fellow bloggers. I have been looking at the infotrack stuff and I've been having a hard time finding solid evidence i could use in my reasearch so i googled and found this web site(http://www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk) to be very helpful with my findings. My revolution question was what made the industrial revolution such a big deal in that time period and what I found from this is the invention of steam power. An example of this steam power is the steam locomotive. I really hope this helps!


-Adam Ridley

Frankenstein

Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Date: Written in 1818

Description
This enriched classic is about a man named Dr.Frankenstein who creates an abomination by using lightning and then suddenly Dr. Frankenstein goes missing the villagers think he was murdered but you will have to read the book to find out.

Research Question:what made the industrial revolution a revolution and made it so important?