indutrialization
...roduction of yarn cheaper and faster than the muscle driven hand spinners. Spinning machines, looms, and the steam engine brought about a major change in this era, because with all the new uses for machinery, iron and coal were put to use. Iron parts replaced wooden parts of machines because iron is much stronger than wood and didn’t wear as easily. Coal was very abundant in England’s mines so coal became very important because it introduced a thrifty way to smelt iron. Also, coal , “Chadwick’s Report on Sanitary Conditions. Men, women, and children began working in these dirty factories, with hours as long as sixteen hours a day. The Victorian Web at Brown University. About 1848, the development of national railroad system was being constructed (Hunt, p 471). About 1800, canals that connected iron and coal mine to factories were built. 2-3) Industrialization affected the physical environ...