Why Did The Industrial Revolution Start?

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The Industrial Revolution is the transformation from a handmade manufacturing civilization to a machine-powered industrial society.
Why did the Industrial Revolution start?

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[peterd]

It's quite sad that when I mentioned to my 17 year old grandson that the industrial revolution in England gave birth to the modern world he had no idea what it was. I hope it was just a case of him not listening in class and not that kids aren't taught how we got to where we are.

[Dayertimes]

This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites

[thecomprehensionhub]

Phenomenal info presentation. Definitely a subject I have been wanting to understand for a while. This was the transition from Monarchy to Oligarchy (Capitalism)

[alaahussein]

One of the reasons for the occurrence of the Industrial Revolution, and I find it to be the most important reason, is the growth of the merchant class as a result of the discovery of America and Asia. The merchant class and investors were able to approach power and gradually were able to control it and direct the state in a way that achieves their commercial goals. As a result of trade expansion, there were needs to increase production, so cooperation occurred between merchants and experienced craftsmen and scientists to overcome these problems. Trade, industry, and scientific research developed. The result of all this progress was political progress.

[walterbennie]

The Industrial Revolution was the result of the single act of James Watt's invention of the world's first practical Steam engine in a damp, foggy mid 18th century Scotland. This was the spark.
Everything else had been around for millenia, coal, canals, water power, iron, spinning and weaving, big business, trade.
The only thing new was the Scotsman James Watt's Steam Engine.
It was a Power Revolution.
Imagine what the Industrial Revolution would have looked like without James Watt's Steam Powered Engines and their successors?
It wouldn't have happened!
All we would've had were Newcomen Atmospheric Pumps and Water-wheels

[thisguy]

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[andriesscheper]

In the 17ty century the Dutch already used sawing wind mills to proces wood and build sea going vessels on an industrial scale. I bet there are many more early examples. Steam only accelerated the developments.

[k.chriscaldwell]

The Industrial Revolution started with the 1440s’ Gutenberg press. It can be said that the Gutenberg press was the first machine of the Industrial revolution.

But it was the press’ impact on information and knowledge that carried the most weight. That impact fueled and propagated the Protestant Revolution, the other other key component of the Industrial Revolution.

[onionhead]

Very narrow view focused on the textile industry, does not cross reference much with other tech or social developments. Incorrect in many details.

[yuliyadzemesh]

What were the root causes of this revolution

[Bill]

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[BNJIM]

*"You wouldnt think dark and dreary England would be the start of the industrial revolution"* had me laughing, i actually would considering the countries level of advancement during time period (most technologically advanced country). The first televisions, phones (also telegram), penicillin, underground railways to mention only a few inventions all come from the island as well as the industrial revolution. Britain was the power house that has driven the modern world to where it is today. Thought the video was very USA-centric. The title should read" USA Perspective of Industrial Revolution" or "America (USA) Journey through industrial revoltuion". Never in my life have i heard someone talk about the industrial revolution which was a British event and mention America so much. Britain spread industrialization around the world and brought it to america. Additionally, In Europe the industrial revolution was not driven by slave trade maybe in America but certainly not Europe. The video is "American-washed" and i believe great misunderstandings can come from this. For example you state the industrial revolution was built on the back of slaves (and innovation) then your students think this to be true in totality that worldwide the industrial revolution was fueled by slavery when this was not the case its more complex than this. And they're not called "loo-ddites" they're called "lu-ddites" like an uu sound not an oo sound. Britain were the first country to go through an industrial revolution then America followed suit far later

[christianp.]

There is a part in this video with an egregious historical inaccuracy. 
In the part of this video which is 7:06-7:22 in, the narrator has most facts right about being working class in the 18th and 19th century except the last detail when we he literally claimed that it was "a stable wage in an era of economic upheaval".
The truth is that the typical employee of the Edwardian Era would starve to death because there were no laws guaranteeing 'worker's rights' as we have today, employers legally had the right to pay nothing but a penny for an entire years worth of labor and also demand that employees work 22 hour shifts, seven days a week or face being fired which also meant certain death.
The typical paycheck of that era was only 1/16th of a penny every two weeks and that was only paid to keep at least some of the working class alive as an asset which the corrupt tycoons of the time would abuse would abuse and exploit at literally every chance they had.

I believe that when people seem to purposefully forget those historical facts it is for the sake of so called 'political correctness' or so as to not overshadow what happened to slaves in the South which was actually very tame, un-brutal, and not nihilistic compared to the untimely fate of most free people in the North. 
I don't want to be driven too 'off topic' with this this, but when the Civil War was waged it was a gambit to reshape the economic landscape of the North which had suffered from poverty for a long time and because the prospect of a job in the military that gave food, lodging, healthcare benefits and a living wage was irresistible to young men from the North who had never been given such a good opportunity in their whole lives and it was not actually fought to 'free the slaves' or for the ideal of 'freedom' as most people nowadays tend to think it was.

[eyoixwr]

In Britain from 1800 to 1900.
20, 000 Waterwheels decreased in number.
Windmills decreased in number.
Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1, 500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared.
Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10, 000, 000 !!!
So for every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had 500 Steam Engines in 1900 !!!
That's an increase in Power availability for the whole country of 500 times.
And you don't need a river of flowing water for each one either.
In one human lifetime.
This was the one and only cause of the Industrial Revolution.
It was a Power Revolution.
James Watt's Revolution.

[marypetrie]

Damp foggy England!...yeah thats right, its like that all the timr FFS!!!

[notyochiz]

Bro talks so slow i had to speed up the video, god

[Johnmtankard]

You speak axiomatically about what drives innovation, and that government is a hindrance. Let me remind you of NASA and other space agencies and all the armed forces, who have driven much innovation in history. Your bias is, as they say, showing.