The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complicated and remain a topic for debate, with some historians believing the Revolution was an outgrowth of social and institutional changes brought by th ...
CapitalismMain article: CapitalismThe advent of the Age of Enlightenment provided an intellectual framework which welcomed the practical application of the growing body of scientific knowledge—a fact ...
Main article: Second Industrial RevolutionS?chsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz, Germany, 1868Bessemer converterSteel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, ...
Continental EuropeThe Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in Great Britain. In many industries, this involved the application of technology developed in Britain in new ...
Main article: Life in Great Britain during the Industrial RevolutionA Middleton miner in 1814Standards of livingThe history of the change of living conditions during the industrial revolution has been ...
The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. By the 1830s the following gains had been made in im ...
The earliest use of the term "Industrial Revolution" seems to be a letter of 6 July 1799 by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 ...
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods ...
