Positive And Negative Impacts Of The Industrial Revolution

Inside that past are inventions that are used for many reasons, like making chores go faster, or to help around the area. These inventions are used in many different ways and are still constantly becoming improved. The Industrial Revolution is that part of the past where inventors would invent to create helpful machines that can be used in factories or at home. There was a harmful impact that machines had however, they could injure or even kill people that used it. The Industrial Revolution had both positive and negative impacts on many lives, the positive effect being increased efficiency and the negative effect being pollution and hazardous working conditions.

To begin, the increased efficiency comes from factories having workers producing more. People also began to have higher life expectancy and there were new inventions being able to help strengthen

Factories had hazardous working conditions that impacted numerous workers. The danger inside of factories lies in the injurious and filthy state it is in, as many workers became sickly and lack the physical well-being to continue working (Document 15). There was even a case where a child named Mary Richards was working in a factory but was killed by a machine. Her death was witnessed and described as, “He saw her whirled round and round with the shaft - he heard the bones of her arms, legs, thighs, etc. successively snap asunder, crushed, seemingly, to atoms, as the machinery whirled her round, and drew tighter and tighter her body within the works, her blood was scattered over the frame and streamed upon the floor, her head appeared dashed to pieces - at last, her mangled body was jammed in so fast, between the shafts and the floor, that the water being low and the wheels off the gear, it stopped the main shaft.” (Document 11). The conditions of factories made life harder with constant sickness, injuries, and