3-2-1 Summary

3 Things I Learned

1. While Thomas Savery invented the first primitive steam engine in 1698, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt both improved the original design to make it more efficient.

2. The inventions of Richard Arkwright (the water frame), Samuel Crompton (the spinning jenny), and Edmund Cartwright (the power loom) were combined into a textile factory.

3.  The Agricultural Revolution improved farming, making it more efficient and causing it to require less labor. The unemployed farmers who were no longer needed on the farms went to the cities and worked in factories and provided cheap labor for factory owners. However, much of the early factory labor was done by small children, especially intendants.

2 Things that Interested Me

1. The Agricultural Revolution started in England partially because no part of the country was far from navigable water, which was used for transportation.

2. "The sun never set on the British empire"

1 Question I Still Have

1. How did the Industrial Revolution spread to Asia?