The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 |
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abroad activity agriculture areas Arkwright Bank of England banks became Benjamin Gott bills Birmingham Boulton Boulton and Watt Britain brought canals capital Carron ironworks cent centres coal coalfields coke colliers cottage cotton device early economic effect eighteenth century employed employers employment enclosure engine England enterprise exports factory farming fuel furnace growth hand harvests improvements increased industrial revolution industrialists innovation inventions iron industry ironmasters ironworks James Watt John Roebuck Josiah Wedgwood labour Lancashire land large numbers later less London machines Manchester manufacture Matthew Boulton ment merchants metal methods Midlands mills mines organization output patent period pits population pottery production rate of interest rise Samuel Samuel Oldknow Scotland skill social Society spinners spinning steam supply T. S. Ashton textile Thomas Newcomen tion took towns trade transport wages Wales weavers weaving Wedgwood women wool woollen workers yarn