Our group came up with our poster title “From Countrysides to the Big City” because it symbolizes our broad topic of transportation during the Industrial Revolution. The curating process took a while for us, organizing all the sources in a visually appealing way. We all worked together in hopes to have visitors notice the importance of these railroads, steam engines, and other forms of transportation.
Our first source is a diagram of a steam engine, it shows how it operates, and shows how the coal is powers it. Another one of our sources shows a timeline of the developments of canals and rail lines. Our third source shows a debate where William Wadsworth was against the making of railways, but Samuel Smiles was all for it because it made things in England much more connected. The next source is Robert Fulton’s letter on his first steamship voyage, which he says was extremely efficient, traveling 150 miles in just 32 hours. Another source is a visual representation in the form of a map showing the movement of coal, metal goods, and woolen cloths. Finally, our last source shows a picture of the land being blown out of the rocks to create land for a rail road.
The other groups did a great job on their posters, each showing a different aspect of the Industrial Revolution. The “Products of a Dark Time” poster focused on cotton production and how that relates to the slave population at that time. That poster really surprised me because it showed me one way that industrialization was hurting humanity. Then the “Weaving a New World” poster showed us the uses of different wheels at the time, it made me think about how this invention impacted the increase of population in London. Another groups poster “Not-So-Great Britain” showed us the extremely negative sides of the Industrial Revolution such as the crowded and dirty slums, and the horrible pollution going on at the time. Finally the last poster “The Devastation of Child Labor” showed us the sad reality of how just how many children were sent to work in all different jobs, such as coal mining and working in cotton mills. Visiting all the different posters truly helped me to further understand the good and bad effects of the Industrial Revolution.
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