Description of your game:
You are an aspiring industrialist and want to create the perfect urban factory city with maximum production, the best working conditions and minimum pollution.

Historical Background

The Textile industry based on the resource wool was by 1750 one of Britain’s oldest industries and the major source of wealth for the nation. Before Cotton was introduced to the market, the sector was shaped by a domestic system with people working from home. Production was often near sheep farms to save on transportation costs. Cotton was first heavily restricted by the British government before booming after repealing the restrictions in 1774. The following steady rising demand caused the first technological advancement of the industrial revolution with the introduction of mechanized textile machinery.

The iron sector was mostly influenced by the change in fuel for smelting from wood to mined coal. For a given amount of heat, mining coal required much less labour than cutting wood and converting it to charcoal. The addition of limestone to the metal lag and the invention of improved blowing tools not only increased the capacity of blast furnaces with higher temperatures and allowed for increased furnace height but made the iron casting process more reliable and therefore cheaper and readily available.

Patenting a new chemical process for making cement by Joseph Aspdin in 1824 revolutionized the building industry. This process involves sintering a mixture of clay and limestone to about 1,400 C and then grinding it into a fine powder which is then mixed with water, sand and gravel to produce. In 1849 concrete was combined with embedded metal producing steel-reinforced concrete further advancing the building of railway ties, pipes, floors, and arches. It impacted the building of bridges and the sewers of London by providing the tensile or bendable strength of metal and the compressional strength of concrete to withstand heavy loads.

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