Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Assignment #2; The Industrial Revolution (and the Agricultural Revolution)

There are two tasks in assignment #2

1. The invention of the Agricultural Revolution

Read these links and write one paragraph that discusses what the farmer Jethro Tull invented.

Jethro Tull (wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljethrotull.htm



2. History of the Steam Engine- read this (long) Wikipedia entry about the Steam Engine and:

Write 1 sentence describing what it was used for during the industrial age (or the industrial revolution).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine

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  1. Assignment 2.) Task 1.)
    Jethro Tull invented the seed drill. It is a machine that precisely plants seed in rows and covers them up. This invention increased crop prduction 8 fold.

    Task 2.)

    Steam engines were used for close to everything that required either man or water power during the industrial revolution.

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