Manchester has been described as the shock city of the industrial revolution and if you lived in ancoats it was indeed pretty shocking.
Pictures of machines used in the industrial revolution.
Learn where and when the industrial revolution started and the inventions that made it possible.
Ancoats was the world s first industrial suburb factories and workshops cheek by jowl with mean terraces of back to back working class housing and courts.
The industrial revolution which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries was a period during which predominantly agrarian rural societies in europe and america became industrial and urban.
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The industrial revolution occurred when agrarian societies became more industrialized and urban.
The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods.
In 1764 a british carpenter and weaver named james hargreaves invented an improved spinning jenny a hand powered multiple spinning machine that was the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel by making it possible to spin more than one ball of yarn or thread p spinner machines like the spinning wheel and the spinning jenny made the threads and.
Machine tools were developed and the factory system was on the rise.
In 1889 a report by dr john thresh on.