--- title: The Industrial Revolution — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Industrial Revolution», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / The Industrial Revolution # The Industrial Revolution Lesson 30 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/0/) — From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more than at any time since the first farms. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/2/) — Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and children as young as six worked in them, which is why reformers fought for laws that sent children to school instead. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/3/) — Think of how your gran's gran might have walked for two days to a city that you reach in two hours by train: railways, electric light, telephones, cars and planes all arrived within about 150 years. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/4/) — The factories also filled the air with smoke and dirtied rivers, the start of the pollution problems we still deal with today. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/5/) — The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around 1760, when people began making things with machines in factories instead of by hand at home. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/6/) — James Watt greatly improved the steam engine; he did not invent it, as earlier steam engines already pumped water out of mines. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/7/) — Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed pistons that powered factories, trains and ships. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/8/) — Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/9/) — Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and in 1833 a British law banned children under nine from working in most textile mills. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/10/) — The first public steam railway opened in England in 1825, and in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway began running. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/11/) — People moved from villages to work in factory towns, and cities like Manchester grew fast, crowded, smoky and dirty, which later led to sewers, clean water and parks. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/12/) — Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter hours and safety, and won things like the weekend and the eight-hour day. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/13/) — Michael Faraday learned how to make electricity with magnets in 1831, and Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan and others made electric light practical around 1880. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/14/) — Before telephones, messages went by letter, by messenger, or from the 1840s by telegraph, coded clicks sent along wires; Alexander Graham Bell made a working telephone in 1876, and Guglielmo Marconi sent radio signals across the Atlantic in 1901. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/15/) — Karl Benz built one of the first cars in 1885, and in 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered aeroplane flight, which lasted 12 seconds. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/16/) — Smoke from factories and coal fires dirtied the air and rivers, and the problem of pollution, and later of climate change, began with the Industrial Revolution. - ← previous: [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)