got my a level history exam in a few hours and these lectures have helped me develop an idea of the IR better than any books/notes/teacher !!! thankuu sm!
I think your interest in the Industrial Revolution is marvellous. I was brought up in Manchester which, as you may know, was the first industrial city in the world and, the hub of that industrial city was the first industrial village of Ancoats where many mills were built. This city was where Karl Marx met Friedrik Engels (whose family owned a factory in this city) met. I was born just after WW2 and knew the area well because I lived just a mile away in the major coal mining area called Bradford-cum-Beswick. When I was a child, the old mills were still standing, although only some of them were still in business. The mill workers were always recognisable then because their hair was covered in cotton fluff as they left the factory. Other mills had been taken over as warehouses or clothing factories and my mother worked there. Towards the end of the 18th and through the 19th centuries my own ancestors had started to migrate to Manchester from the midlands (Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire) working mainly as coal miners and also spinners, weavers, shoemakers and canal boatmen. Their descendants gradually began to move into the new jobs that a burgeoning industrial community offered such as railways, road building, house building, transport of goods etc.
Wow , this man predicted here what is happening now (2022) with regard to energy , dwelling densities , shifting of manufacturing to emerging lands and much more. The students are very fortunate to be instructed by such a clever man.
The thing about north Manchester, to narrow it down even more, is the work ethic. The hardest workers ever were the Irish navigators who came over and built the canals. This mob formed a big part of the population that grew there. We just work harder than other people and are free spirited with strong Christian values
Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump. It wasn't a steam engine, it supplied Atmospheric Power, not Steam Power, couldn't provide Rotary motion and had a max. of 10psi. The Scot James Watt's invention of the first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine, an engine that supplied Steam Power in Scotland, WAS the Industrial. Revolution. It affected practically every industry including textiles and created many new ones. It was a machine that hadn't existed before 1769, unlike spinning and weaving. Pretty simple really.
Great course package (MALTHUS UCDAVIS). Concepts useful for estimation of market size, eco growth, business life cycle, business valuation, impact of Schumpeter innovation, effects of incentives, role of govt and regulatory bodies, effects of public policies, taxation, regulations, demographic shift, trade and commerce mechanics etc. Can the CROWD on RU-vid suggest any more applications (& how) for these MALTHUSIAN CONCEPTS.
It seems to me that we have entered that era where the low skilled worker is between a rock and a hard place. I believe we need a new economic model. Neither the forced $15/hr wage nor the free market wage is going to work going forward. (I'm in the U.S. in case that was not obvious. Although this does seem to be a world problem.)
Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number. Windmills decreased in number. Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800, there were now 500 Steam Engines in 1900. The Power output for the whole country increased by 500 times, in just one human's ( possible ) lifetime, and you didn't need a flowing river of water for each one, so they could be sited anywhere This WAS the Industrial Revolution. It only needed one single Invention, not very rich James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine. Take away James Watt's Steam Power and you don't have an Industrial Revolution.
