Factors that lead to Industrial Revolution

April 19, 2010

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Armesto mentions many factors that helped start the Industrial Revolution. One cause was the use of fat as a raw energy source, an ingredient in products such as soap and shoe polish, and it also greased many machines. The use of fat is an example of how people in the nineteenth century looked for new ways to exploit the planet’s resources. Another factor that led to the Industrial Revolution was population growth, which caused people to look for new and efficient ways to provide for the increasing population. Other reasons that drove the incentive to find more resources were cities that were ill-planned, food that was polluted and nutritionally inadequate, uneven distribution of food, political neglect, and diseases and droughts. In attempt to balance out the growing population to the amount of food being produced, people practiced forms of population control, such as marrying later. In addition, countries either discovered new ways to produce food or they figured out how to continue their traditional methods but in a more systematic and efficient manner. Some items that played a role in increased food production were the steel plows, railways, fertilizers, canning products, and also the compressed gas cooler. By wanting to incorporate new technologies and exploit new resources for energy, the people of the nineteenth century worked their way into the Industrial Revolution.

The most significant causal factor of the Industrial Revolution was the discovery and exploitation of different resources for energy. People then understood that they needed different more productive resources for energy to produce food and other products for growing populations. The resources that ended up being beneficial also happened to be in great abundance, so that’s also good because then no one had to worry about ever running out of supplies.In addition, with the help of the new resources, people learned methods for making activities such as food packaging much faster and efficient. By discovering and exploiting different natural resources as sources of energy, it became much easier to provide for and manage the increasing populations of the nineteenth century.