Weekly Reading Reflection 4

In Charter 17, it talked about the Industrial Revolution. Industrial Revolution began on about 1750s, and in the period of Industrial Revolution, the way people produce was significantly changed. Machines began to appear and replace the way to produce with manpower or animal power. Individual hand produces “evolutes” to Huge scale produce line and factory, and the machine becomes a symbol of this period cause of its invention and practically use in Industrial Revolution.

Even through, Industrial Revolution began in the 1750s, but before 1830, it never really had a real effect on people. When James von Breda Watt improved the steam engine, a group of technique revolution lead produces way from traditional to machine production.

England is the origin country of the Industrial Revolution, and also the first one finished the revolution. It is not a coincidence that Industrial Revolution takes place in England. Britain Island has massive coal reserve, and coal is a most relevant element in modem industrial. Also the because of the demand of coal, the technique of underground coal gather was developed. England also has a relatively comprehensive patent system, which of support the creativity of technique positively. And also the local high labor cost pushed technique revolution to lower the cost of good sold.

Industrial Revolution has a huge effect on scientific development. Before the revolution, development of scientific hardly ever use in industrial production, but it grew with revolution. Scientists become more popularization. More and more people from laboring classes become the scientist in the district which industrially developed area.

The Enclosure and the agriculture technique improvement cause lots of people from countryside to the city. Because of city and factory accept these people, so it results in urbanization. People who live in the city have more convince way to communicate and receive knowledge. People’s mind has manipulated and become more looking for personal felicity instead of group’s. Capitalism raised in this period.