INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major

changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United Kingdom, then subsequently spread throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. (en.wikipedia.org) FACTORS THAT LEAD TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION- American industrial revolution was a result of many factors. population growth, advances in transportation and communications, growth of manufacturing technology, development of news systems of business organization three trends characterized the American population between 1820 and 1840 (all contributed to economic growth), population increasing rapidly, moving westward, urbanization reduced transportation costs, increasing economic opportunities in US, and deteriorating economic conditions in some areas of Europe helped to stimulate the immigration boom before the 1830s corporations could be chartered only by state legislatures Individual merchant capitalists were giving way to corporations Machine technology advanced more rapidly in the US in the mid 19th C than in any other country in the world. The most important of the changes that brought about the Industrial Revolution were (1) the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools; (2) the use of steam, and later of other kinds of power, in place of the muscles of human beings and of animals; and (3) the adoption of the factory system. (ap_history_online.tripod.com) (http://answers.yahoo.com) PERSONALITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION1775: James Watt discovered the steam engine. 1793: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. 1807: Robert Fulton created the first steamboat transportation service. 1836: Samuel F. B. began the revolution of the telegram. 1844: Elias Howe invented the sewing machine (quite an asset to the textile industry). 1851: Issac Singer modifies and improves Elias Howe's sewing machine. 1866: Cyrus Field came up with the idea of a transatlantic cable (to allow transatlantic transmission of messages). 1876: Alexander Graham Bell created the first telephone. 1877: Thomas Edison created the first phonograph 1879: Thomas Edison, after numerous failures, created the incandescent light bulb.

1888: Nikola Tesla created the induction electric motor. 1892: Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine. 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew the first airplane. 1908: Henry Ford made his first Model T Ford automobile. 1913: Henry Ford perfected the manufacturing process with his new assembly line. (http://www.industrial-revolution.org)