Transportation
Rivers and Canals: Ships used to transport goods through the rivers and canals in England to important cities like London,Liverpool, and Bristol. They carried raw materials such as wool, iron ore, food, corn, wheat, and building supplies to companies all over England. Some of the rivers that were most commonly used were the Thames, Severn, and Trent rivers. One of the canals was the Bridgewater Canal built from the Duke of Bridgwater's coal mine to the town of Manchester, it also connect several main rivers together.
Railroads:
Made the transportation of goods to cities not on the coast or by rivers easier and faster. The railroad locomotives could transport just about anything that needed to be shipped. James Watt is credited with making the first steam engine and the French engineer Cugnut is creditted with putting the steam engine in a locomotive to ride along rails. The railroads open up opportunities for settlement and growth. The railroad could along with shipping goods could be used for transpoting people from one city to another. Because of the railways influence railroads were soon popping up all over the country of England and were slowly over taking and made a stop to canal building.
Turnpikes and roads:
Before the introducing of turnpikes the roads in England were terrible; when it rained thy would become mud by stopping the traffic of stagecoaches, and the would become worn and develop deep ruts. The turnpikes started to pop up around 1751and with it the development of better roadbuilding and road surfacing.
"Two Scottish engineers, John Loudon McAdam and Thomas Telford, made important advances in road construction during the early 1800's. McAdam originated the macadam type of road surface, which consists of crushed rock packed into thin layers. Telford developed a technique of using large flat stones for road foundations. These new methods of roadbuilding made travel by land faster and smoother. As a result, manufactured goods could be delivered more efficiently. The orders and money involved in business and industry also moved faster and more simply.IR "
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2. Rodrigue, Dr. Jean P. Historical Geography of Transportation - Part . 12 Nov. 2007 <http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/conc1en/ch1c3_1en.html>.
3. Ellis, Elisabeth G. World History Connections to Today. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2005.
4. Industrial Revolution. 12 Nov. 2007 http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/fall/industrialization/1/industrial_revolution.htm.
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