Title: Mechanization - Industrial Revolution
Headings: Mechanization
Mechanization
Content: The Industrial Revolution in Germany began in the 1800s when all the German states
became unified. Large amounts of coal in Germany caused more steel to be
produced, and an advanced system of railroads formed. German industry closely
followed and improved upon the ideas, inventions and developments of Britain. Railways became a very important part of German society during the Industrial Revolution. At first, Germany did not have the resources or ability to create a railway
system, but in the 1840s the nation started importing the required materials and
workers to build railroads, and soon became able to build them themselves. Steel
was an important figure in the construction of railroads, and Germany produced
its own steel because the cost of buying it from overseas (from the United
States) was expensive. In 1869, Alfred Krupp introduced the open-hearth
steelmaking process in his in his factory in Essen, Germany, increasing
production of steel. The mechanization of industry with the factory system quickly increased in Germany,
and many great inventors and innovators helped to modernize technology. Robert
Koch discovered a way to easily study bacteria in 1870. In 1874, the German
Steel Federation was established.