2007-09-24 23:43:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation had a profound effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout the world, a process that continues as industrialisation. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human social history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the first city-states; almost every aspect of daily life and human society was eventually influenced in some way.
2007-09-25 01:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by sparks9653 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you can say the Industrial Revolution had a concrete start and finish. Certainly the time of Stephenson and the Brunels is thought to be the time of the Industrial Revolution.
2007-09-25 06:53:16 · answer #2 · answered by plwimsett 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It started in the mid-1750s with the application of steam engines to drain tin mines on Cornwall. it is arguable that it has never finished. Are computers part of the Industrial Revolution?
2007-09-25 06:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it started in 1750 and its still going
2013-09-05 15:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by Chinwe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋