industrial revolution

[ in-duhs-tree-uhl rev-uh-loo-shuhn ]

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noun

none the industrial revolution or the Industrial Revolution, the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
any period of change to the economic and social organization of a country, region, etc., that is characterized by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines and the concentration of industry in large establishments.

Industrial Revolution

the Industrial Revolution
the transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries of first Britain and then other W European countries and the US into industrial nations

Industrial Revolution

The rapid industrial growth that began in England during the middle of the eighteenth century and then spread over the next 50 years to many other countries, including the United States. The revolution depended on devices such as the steam engine ( see James Watt ), which were invented at a rapidly increasing rate during the period. The Industrial Revolution brought on a rapid concentration of people in cities and changed the nature of work for many people. ( See Luddites .)

First recorded in 1840–50

The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.

The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

Accessibility to other ways of life was part of the monumental lifestyle shift enabled by the Industrial Revolution.

Harris pointed out that until the Industrial Revolution, foreigners had nothing but praise for the quality of the food in England.

It all started with the Industrial Revolution: machine displaced man.

The conditions of industry changed and, as must ever be the case, industrial revolution brought suffering on the poor.

How mighty a force this industrial revolution was to exert on English politics and English society time was to show.

They have taken their rise and form subsequent to the industrial revolution wrought by steam and as a result of that revolution.

As the Industrial Revolution went on, a great gulf opened between employer and employed.

Meantime, starting in this decade yet especially developing from 1885 to 1895, began the industrial revolution of the South.

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