Essays Tagged: "Robert Bakewell"

How Successfully did the Agricultural Revolution Deal with the Problems and Inefficiencies that Existed in Agriculture?

ethods and techniques, and because the King was such an important figure, many followed his example.Robert Bakewell was a great pioneer in selective breeding, isolating animals to reduce the spread of ...

(6 pages) 52 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Review on the whole of the Agricultural Revolution

a mixture of either clay and lime or chalk and lime. Lime reduced harmful acids.Individuals such as Robert Bakewell and Thomas Coke thought up of useful ideas to increase productivity like new breeds ... rkers to have spare cash to buy industrial products thus increasing the demand for industrial goods.Robert BakewellRobert Bakewell followed the work done by other breeders. His was one of the best kno ...

(8 pages) 30 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Industrial Revolution.

Raynham in Norfolk.He introduced the four-course rotation of crops:WheatTurnipsOats or barleyClover.Robert Bakewell 1725-1795 pioneered in the field of systematic stock breeding. Prior to this, sheep ... power continued in use, but the factory was now liberated from the streamside. A Watt engine drove Robert Fulton's experimental steam vessel Clermont up the Hudson in 1807.Electric Power.It was not u ...

(11 pages) 203 2 2.5 Oct/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Mass customization

ndustrial Revolution has begun from the agriculture in Britain, such as, systematic stock breeding (Robert Bakewell, 1725-1795), scientific agriculture (Arthur Young, 2001), and other new agricultural ...

(5 pages) 52 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Industirial Revolution

ns like the seed drill and horse hoe led to an increased production of farm goods. Pioneers such as Robert Bakewell formed new ways to maintain livestock and make certain traits like white wool in she ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Agriculture and Industrial Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century

that they rotate which kinds of crops they plant as to not dry up the nutrients of the soil. Next, Robert Bakewell suggested that farmers should only breed their best animals. He predicted that this ...

(3 pages) 22 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

This essay explores the statement "The Agricultural Revolution in Britain was economically essential and socially undesirable." seeking truths and arguments against the statement.

managed much more efficiently. Because of Charles Townshend's enclosure of the fields, a man called Robert Bakewell could implement his new idea. It was known as 'selective breeding'. The connection b ...

(7 pages) 15 0 3.6 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture