... Human labour was at an all-time low during the Textile Industry. The iron industry The Iron Industry was the next industry to become mechanized. Britain was in dire need of a higher quality iron, and they experimented with many things to try to create a high quality iron. When they experimented with smelting iron ore with coke, they came across many problems, so Henry Cort ... developed a "puddling" method which removed impurities from pig iron (Christopher 118). Later, when the use of the steam engine to flatten the pig iron was introduced, production skyrocketed and provided Britain w...

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... was formed and perfected. Henry Cort developed the process paddling in 1780. This process involved coke, a derivative coal that burned away the impurities off of the iron, producing a better quality of iron. With the production of better iron came the production of better machinery, and new industries. The rail-road was probably one of the most significant inventions that helped to promote the Industrial Revolution. In 1804, Richard Trevithick ... invented the first steam powered locomotive. During the next twenty years, Britain ... ...

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