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Industrial Revolution   /ɪndˈəstriəl rˌɛvəlˈuʃən/   Listen
Industrial Revolution

noun
1.
The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.  Synonym: technological revolution.





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"Industrial Revolution" Quotes from Famous Books



... colonies (1833). To this we must add the changes produced by the discovery of steam and the invention of machinery, which rapidly changed England from an agricultural to a manufacturing nation, introduced the factory system, and caused this period to be known as the Age of Industrial Revolution. ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... techniques described by Agricola with those of a century later suggests that this was a century of significant progress in that earlier industrial revolution described by Mumford as his "Eotechnic phase," characterized by "the diminished use of human beings as prime movers, and the separation of the production of energy from ...
— Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later • Robert P. Multhauf


Words linked to "Industrial Revolution" :   historic period, age, technological revolution


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