1. Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Oxford English dictionary describes the industrial revolution as a rapid industrial development, which took place in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chiefly owing to the introduction of new or improved machinery and large-scale production methods. ... Firstly, Britain adopted the term 'industrial revolution' to describe her economic growth in the early nineteenth century. ... It became firmly rooted in the French language in the early nineteenth century, and it had a meaning widely recognized today: rapid economic growth fueled by advancement in te...
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