Inventions and Technological Advances
Price: £14.99 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)
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Subject: History
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 7025
The History Portfolio, the acclaimed and popular collection of black and white photocopiable drawings has now been expanded to cover national histories and the roots of European civilisation.
Each pack contains maps, drawings, diagrams and cartoons giving a wealth of information on the period that can be used with a wide range of pupils. Packs come complete with teacher notes which give background information on the events and people depicted on each sheet.
Pack K1 - Inventions and Technological Advances
The Industrial Revolution first transformed the textile industry and, after the perfection of the rotary steam engine by James Watt, every branch of transport and manufacture. This made possible a reorganisation of labour by the new manufacturing elite, the so-called 'factory system' which in the days before public consciousness and parliamentary legislation exploited the masses and produced huge new cities which were totally lacking in basic facilities. The basic deficiencies in health and housing only remedied very slowly, following parliamentary representation of the new towns in 1832 and the election of the first municipal councils, 1834. Profound changes in agriculture produced more food for the cities but led to a new social order in the countryside in which labourers were depressed to a starvation wage and suffered intense hardship.
