a great big revolution was going on, no not against the government but INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
All of this was started in Britain where it was getting changed in and industry urbanised country.There was a political and social elite going on and people were generating new ideas and new technology inventions where this gave the opportunity to new roads, railways and canals to be built and it gave even the opportunity for new factories where the landscapes were ruined yet the country and people were doing huge businesses and profits.
Yet, Britain became the most powerful and wealthiest country on planet earth and ruled the largest empire in history.
People used to use wood to generate energy, yet it was bulky, difficult and expensive to transport it. So they discovered ... COAL!
Coal gave the experience to kick start the revolution, as Britain could transport coal to any place with cheaper transport as they had coal mines next to the shores. And again, coal gave three times as much energy than wood did and it was in an abundant amount and even easily mined. While mining for coal, they found difficulties too, as mining for coal had to go deep under earth and had to keep water off the mines so no material would be ruined with water.
Such people with great minds invented the horse powered water pumps to eliminate water but it only went down till a certain depth. So people were experimenting and yet who'd will invent another machine to eliminate water deeper down had to get rich.
it was back in 1712 when the first steam powered engine got designed and had to be the first successful steam engine which let people to pump water from 100's of feet below ground where it did the work of 20 horses. After time, Britain was exporting coal to 2/3rd's of the world.
These experimentations by geniuses let new scientific ideas run where people discovered forces of gravity, and properties of air and gas
Birmingham .. Birmingham City, the place where it had to be one of the most places to get factories to work on small goods which were called 'Birmingham Toys' and a land with intelligent people designing and improving the steam engine which worked with less coal and more efficient. Birmingham was the birthplace of the first steam powered manufacturing factory and a place where success was held following by Mr.Harvey selling the finest swords, Mr.Harris with telescopes, Mr.Betts with saws, weighing machines were born and even a factory which produced tortoise shell mother of pearl buttons for the leaders of society and even mass producing textiles. The so called Birmingham toys were actually little delicate objects such a snuff box and vinaigrette which one carries around with him and other personal adornment.
Back in those days there was a political liberty which gave power to people to invest and open new business with encouragement for a lot of profit
-Birmingham toy (used to quickly smell perfume from, when sitting next to a person with bad odour)
France - was the opposite of Britain where the government ruled everything. Two designers, the Pariee Bros tried to edit the steam machine and failed, continued by ordering 2 steam engines from Birmingham in 1779 to be installed with the bank of a river.
All of this resulted that Britain now became the greatest trading empire in the world where they imported goods from west Indies rice from Georgia, Tobacco from N.America, spices from India and Tea from China. All this businesses let for slavery, where millions of slaves were traded trough the Atlantic after some African rulers traded his people for money as they used to do the hard work and making business men with maximum profit. They used to live in unbearable conditions which a lot of them only survived life for only 3 years after being forced in working out sugar canes, this was done because in the 1790's sugar was the British leading import
As I was saying before in this article, Britain opened the doors for business and new institutions were established and many people had extra money to spend and there was an expenditure in the middle class. This resulted that the middle class had money to spend so gross domestic products exploded on sale. Hence, there was this businessman named Wedgwood opened a company with Bentley which was about pottery. Their works ranged in tea products which consisted in a: teapot burner, tea caddy, sugar bowls, tea spoons, hot water jug and sloth bowl to put used leaves in. They even produced high standard pottery set for the Queen where a new technique was invented, the gold guilt glaze.
During these years as I have wrote above, there wasn't only good sides about this, but even bad sides and one of this situation was .. bad road system (16th-17th century). This problem caused difficulty in transport where 1/3rd of fragile ceramics used to be broken on the way and raw materials were getting hard to get and difficulties to get finished products to market, so back in 1706 the government passed an act for business men where they had to build their own permanent roads, this even led the people to pay for using private roads which costs were used to maintenance roads. This act got trough Britain and in 70 years (1706-1776)from 300 miles of streets it turned to 15,000 miles of road works. This act even gave the permission to businessman to build canals, which made transportation cheaper by 50%
This revolution clearly shows how design got started to invent new things such as the steam engine that changed the world completely from top to bottom.
Reference: Industrial Revolution - YouTube. 2013. Industrial Revolution - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhF_zVrZ3RQ.
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