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Notes on video lecture:
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 28, 2015 (go to class or lectures)


Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
1770s, medals, balance, non, globalization, environment, speeds, productivity, exported, equivalent, local, colonies, animals, windmill, agriculture, plants, textiles, inexpensive, windfall, arable, energy, single, wastelands, eating, Egypt
Adam Smith called those worlds that Europe was occupying " "
their potential was latent
to turn them into productive assets it would take:
colonization
settlement
privatization
the transformation of wastelands into fertile, lands
a kind of ecological
in the same way silver had been a windfall in an earlier cycle of European expansion
created radically new opportunities to
improve diet
shape everyday life in Europe
the backdrop to the industrial revolution
industrial revolution
was neither particularly industrial or revolutionary except at the end of the process
had much to do with
was nothing that happened in a given year as the word revolution often refers to in the 19th and 20th centuries
transformation
not just in manufacturing
transportation
agriculture
services
taking place in all sectors of the European and neo-European economies
energy harvesting
in a sense began with the around the year 1200
culminated with James Watt's steam engine in the
energy from wind to coal
the cumulative switch from the humble windmill
the switch from renewable to -renewable energy sources was a powerful one
a movement away from the reliance of plants and for an energy source
ultimately animals relied on plants for an energy source to keep themselves going
mining stores of energy in minerals
two breakthroughs
previously all outputs are drawn from the system that require inputs
horses require energy that they consume by in the field
there was a fundamental limitation to the amount of energy you could get from the
you had to put back into the ground for the horses to eat to get energy again
the inorganic world would free humans from the necessity of this basic
taking coal from the ground was a way of breaking the natural balance that had to be observed
improvements in production methods in this new inorganic world
could be controlled once you harnessed energy
variables were easier to manipulate
result was a massive upturn in productivity growth rates
clearest in the production of cotton
1770-1790 output increased ten-fold while the price decreased by 90%
one of the hallmarks of this age is that machines could be produced which could augment the productivity of a man, in a factory
combine this new use of energy with this new technology intensifying the internal division of labor
the industrial revolution could be called a " revolution"
coal and eventually oil had to be gotten from far away
you now have a whole sector of the economy devoted to finding
the basic goods that went into producing new products often came from the , e.g. cotton from the American South, Brazil or
out of Europe would emerge, as a result of this revolution, cotton goods
these could be
Europe used to rely on exporting precious to Asia in return for prized commodities, but now they could export inexpensively produced products
had to find markets to sell cotton textiles
began to compete with producers of textiles
an early example of
countries and regions in Europe began to specialize in the product of manufactured goods, and the colonies specialized in basic goods
Ideas and Concepts:
The broader impact of the industrial revolution, via tonight's History since 1300 class:
"The industrial revolution was in many ways not particularly industrial, except perhaps at the end of the process, and it was nothing that happened in a given year as did other revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. In a sense, it began with the windmill around the year 1200 and culminated with James Watt's steam engine in the 1770s, a transformation that replaced renewable energy with non-renewable energy.
Previously all outputs that were drawn from the natural system required equivalent inputs. Horses required energy to produce work, and that energy had to be restored back into the ground in the form of plants, and so there was a fundamental limitation to the amount of energy you could get from the environment. This was fundamentally changed by the steam engine which allowed the inorganic world to free humans from the necessity of this basic balance.
So understanding James Watt's steam engine as the beginning of the industrial revolution, while not false, misses the more profound impact that the steam engine had on commencing what for humans and the world one might call the non-renewable transformation."
"The industrial revolution was in many ways not particularly industrial, except perhaps at the end of the process, and it was nothing that happened in a given year as did other revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. In a sense, it began with the windmill around the year 1200 and culminated with James Watt's steam engine in the 1770s, a transformation that replaced renewable energy with non-renewable energy.
Previously all outputs that were drawn from the natural system required equivalent inputs. Horses required energy to produce work, and that energy had to be restored back into the ground in the form of plants, and so there was a fundamental limitation to the amount of energy you could get from the environment. This was fundamentally changed by the steam engine which allowed the inorganic world to free humans from the necessity of this basic balance.
So understanding James Watt's steam engine as the beginning of the industrial revolution, while not false, misses the more profound impact that the steam engine had on commencing what for humans and the world one might call the non-renewable transformation."
