Museum Curator

For our exhibit, it shows a map of all the coal fields and coal mines in Great Britain.  It also gives a chart of the annual income for citizens in Great Britain along with a picture of a dirty, polluted river and also gives a journal entry about the filth of the River Thames.  Our poster is about how people were making little to know money, and living in filthy conditions due to all of the pollution of the coal mining and factories.  This is how we came up with our title, we decided to call it "Living in Filth" because not only is it polluted, but also because most people have no money and they might not have a house so they are literally living in the filth.  I hope that visitors will learn about all of the poor living conditions during the Industrial Revolution and how much pollution was being created.

I learned that they forces children, even some that were only nine years old to work in factories in poor conditions.  Even though they did make a Factory Act limiting the amount of time children could work, it was still very bad for the children to work like they were forced to.

I learned about the two great innovations for cotton production, the Arkwright's Water Frame, and the Boott Cotton Mill.  I also learned that they had to force a bunch of slaves into laboring at these factories and mills and it also shows a chart of the amount of slaves increasing over time in America which is really sad.

In this poster I learned about all the new textile innovations such as the Spinning Jenny, the Almond Loom, and the Spinning Wheel.  I also learned that these machines were so big and efficient that they had to make factories for them and invent new things just to keep up with the other machines.

I learned that the new invention, the steam engine, and the improved technologies increased the efficiency of trade and travel in Great Britain.  The steam engine was more efficient especially with the water it used and it was used for almost everything.