Industrial Revolution

"*** The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid social and technological change that have shaped the world we live in today ***

It was a period of great innovation and many of the items we see today were inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

The following 27 inventions are a hand-picked selection of some of the most important inventions of the period as well as some of the lesser-known ones.

They range from innovations within the textile industry to the iron industry and consumer goods of the later Industrial Revolution. We have limited our time period between the mid-1700's and 1840 which is commonly agreed to be the period of time for the Industrial Revolution and industrial revolution in britain.

Industrial Revolution, industrial age in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world.

Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–83) to describe Britain’s economic development from 1760 to 1840. Since Toynbee’s time the term has been more broadly applied.

A brief treatment of the Industrial Revolution follows. For full treatment, see Europe, history of: The Industrial Revolution.

The main features involved in the Industrial Revolution were technological, socioeconomic, and cultural. The technological changes included the following: the use of new basic materials, chiefly iron and steel, the use of new energy sources, including both fuels and motive power, such as coal, the steam engine, electricity, petroleum, and the internal-combustion engine, the invention of new machines.

such as the spinning jenny and the power loom that permitted increased production with a smaller expenditure of human energy, industrial revolution inventions a new organization of work known as the factory system, which entailed increased division of labour and specialization of function, important developments in transportation and communication, including the steam locomotive, steamship, automobile, airplane, telegraph, and radio, and the increasing application of science to industry.

These technological changes made possible a tremendously increased use of natural resources and the mass production of manufactured goods.

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