3 Things I Learned
1. I had never realized the amount of workers who had previously been employed in their homes or a home setting who got transplanted into factories.
2. I had no idea that parents were as eager as they were for their children to work so that the family could make a little more money.
3. I learned that James Watt was actually much more important to history than I had previously thought... I had always just assumed that he came up with a measurement system or something, but he actually did a lot in the way of lending to modern inventions.
2 Things I Found Interesting
1. I thought it was really cool how all these major inventions just came about within about twenty years of each other, and what a big impact they made.
2. It's amazing to think about the importance of railroads in relation to the Industrial Revolution. They seem so slow to us today (especially the original ones), but they made everything happen quicker for the people working back then.
1 Question I Still Have
1. What level had education been brought up to in this time period, and how did the percent of the educated populace compare with the uneducated, both in terms of numbers and class?
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