Week 9 Prompt Post: Recognizing Significance----The Industrial Revolution

          This week’s prompt post is recognizing significance for my field which is mechanical engineering. Well, I can’t think any ideas better than Industrial Revolution, it is the really significance for mechanical engineering, because the Industrial Revolution brings machines instead of manpower.

Paiting For Industrial Revolution

           The Industrial Revolution took place in 18^th century in Britain, when handicraft production cannot meet the demand of the market, British wanted to make a change to manpower mood, here we go it is the reason of why the Industrial Revolution happened. When Watt invented steam machines, British didn’t need to build their factories near to streams or rivers, and it didn’t requires manpower during the process of production, it released workers from heavily hand work and at that time, people in Britain produced things by machines.

            Moreover, the Industrial Revolution divides the class, since the Industrial Revolution spread to America in 19^th century, it separate classes into the bourgeoisie and the working class which we live the same nowadays. So the industrial revolution is not only significance for my field, but also it influences the whole world.

            If I explain how the significance of the work done in my discipline, I would like to say according to the article I found is that before the Industrial Revolution began, people used carriages to transport stuffs and it was slow, when the Industrial Revolution began with steam machines, people started to use vehicles to transport stuffs and after some times, railroad and waterway transport showed up, as after more times, airplane transport showed up. Well, when I graduate from mechanical engineer, I probably going to build cars or designing cars, so the Industrial Revolution does affect my discipline.

 

CITATION

1. appledj5845, . 工业革命时期的背景油画. 2014. Photograph. Baidu ImageWeb. 25 Mar 2014. <http://baike.baidu.com/picview/8751/5044850/0/ae10edde6b94126694ee37eb.html

2. "Industrial Revolution." Follow HIstory. n. page. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. <http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution>.