HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Time when the Cottage Industry started in Europe
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Time when machines were invented to make products in factories
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Time when new discoveries about the world were made
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Time when people left factories to work on farms
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution was an period of global transition of human economy towards more efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution, starting from Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Industrial Revolution, the period in which agrarian and handicraft economies shifted rapidly to industrial and machine-manufacturing-dominated ones, began in the United Kingdom in the 18th century and later spread throughout many other parts of the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -The coal-fired steam engine was in many respects the decisive technology of the Industrial Revolution. Steam power was first applied to pump water out of coal mines. For centuries, windmills had been employed in the Netherlands for the roughly similar operation of draining low-lying flood plains.
Detailed explanation-5: -An icon of the Industrial Revolution broke onto the scene in the early 1700s, when Thomas Newcomen designed the prototype for the first modern steam engine. Called the “atmospheric steam engine, ‘’ Newcomen’s invention was originally applied to power the machines used to pump water out of mine shafts.