HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Inventors, landowners, and entrepreneurs adopted a more experimental approach to improving production.
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Merchants developed the “domestic system” for producing goods in people’s homes.
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Farmers learned how to predict weather conditions to increase their crop yields.
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Church leaders encouraged business owners to take more risks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system. New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Three important technologies can be identified that formed the foundations of the first industrial revolution namely: iron production, steam engine and textiles. The steam engine had been discovered before the industrial revolution and was subsequently improved by Watt and others after 1778.