What Happened

There are major developments and inventions in agriculture, manufacture and travel that eventually spread throughout Europe and North America. industry and manufacturing that was once all by hand could now be done by machine. it all started with the textile industry and spread to other products. Factories were built and steam powered machinery increased the manufacture. Enormous amounts of coal had to be burned to make enough steam to power the machines. Increased products meant that more goods needed to be transported, so canals were built, and roads and railways improved.

The effects of all this rapid change on society was enormous. More and more people left the land and went to towns and cities to work in factories. The growth of the towns couldn't keep up with the number of people pouring into them, and so housing was hard to get and people lived in slums in appalling circumstances.

Where We Are?????

We are in England and the year is late 18th and early 19th century when the life of ordinary people was changed dramatically forever. it was a time of numerous inventions, so industry developed so fast that society could barely keep up. Before the Industrial revolution, life for most people in England was a farming and rural lifestyle. Communications and travel were limited. Manufacturing was was done by natural means, such as windmills. Life was hard, and people worked hard to pay their rent and to put food on the table. Education is not available for ordinary people.

About What We Are Going To Be Doing There!!!

Our aim is by using our cloaking device we are to observe and record important developments, changing attitudes, new inventions and historical figures of this time period. We will be recording this information per week in 2 blog entries that will be downloaded directly back to the students at H. G Wells High School. 

Industrial Revolution

I'm a student at H.G.Wells High School on Mars. This is a very exciting day for us students. With an increase in school funding our has for the first time in its 300 year history been given its own time machine and we have been selected to test its operation. As part of our History Unit and after careful consideration we have chosen to visit the time period know as The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.