... The textile revolution also generated spin-off effects around the world. India's industrial position was reversed as she became a supplier of raw cotton to Britain and an importer of machine-manufactured cotton textiles from Britain. Britain's new mills required unprecedented quantities of good quality cotton. The textile industry began with consumer product that everyone used and that already employed ... iron was introduced into building construction. The greatest demand for the metal came, however, with new inventions. The steam engine, railroad track and locomotives, steamships, an...

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... tools and materials for farming. Large factories were few; handcrafts still flourised. Electricity was too expensive to make that it was treated almost as a precious metal. Construction and machine making were the result of trial and error, not architechtural and engineering knowledge. This situation changed radically in two spurts. The first spurt, between 1850 and 1870, saw most ... of Europe consolidating earlier industrialization, extending it to previously untouched areas. The shift to machine production became permanent; steam power and other forms of energy were harnessed; and mor...

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... much dependence on the government because of their independent family units in terms of realities, and Britain was better in responses toward the urban working class who depended on the consistent demands made to the government for social change. The nation of Britain developed several political responses ... to protect the rights and improve the terrible conditions of the urban working class. The policy that they had adopted of laissez-fair made the government reluctant to pass regulations of hours and conditions for ... was angered and responded with it's Tory politician, Spencer Per...

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... ? We may fin the answers in some scientific movies. Skyscrapers are crowed everywhere. There is no road and street because common car has been instead of certain kind of flying machine aero car. People's life has expanded into aerial space. The whole city is equipped with high technology, so on and so forth. However, the issue is this kind of movies ... bases for the construction of modernization. Therefore, the development of city takes an important part in the construction of modernization. It has the leading role in social and economic development. Urban planning plays a significant r...

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... transformation, which above all changed human labour, consumption, and social structure. The industrial revolution was drove by social changes as Europe moved from an agricultural based economy to a capitalist urban one. The vast increase in the market of European goods helped drive the adaptation to an industrial, manufacturing economy. The immediate consequences of the industrial revolution was first the lower ... prices of industrial products brought about by machine labour that destroyed the old system of manufacture based on hand labour. In countries where before industry had been b...

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... a fictional location of the industrial age, it serves Dickens" intent of presenting industrialism at its worst. Many of the details of Coketown are based on truths about on these booming urban towns, but Dickens slightly exaggerates them to focus the readers" attention on the points of the age he would like to criticize. Working under the assumption that only higher production ... is the most successful yield of the class; his pigment starved skin shows no signs of sun exposure, and his "cold eyes" leave one to imagine that he would be machine-like in not just his responses, but in ever...

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