Industrial Revolution Definition

noun
The change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machine and power tools and the development of factories and large-scale industrial production.
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Synonyms:
  • technological-revolution
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The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.

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  • Dictionaries and manuals are the instruments of this industrial revolution.

  • The Industrial Revolution ushered in a whole new age of furniture manufacturing, allowing it to be produced on a large scale and driving the prices of pieces down.

  • In the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) the theory was applied to show how the industrial revolution had replaced feudal with modern conditions.

  • But the Industrial Revolution brought cheaper ingredients to home cooks everywhere, as well as better methods for baking, and thus the birthday cake became a common celebratory delight that spread throughout the world.

  • The movement as a whole was of exactly the same character as the industrial revolution in England, and it led to the same result, a struggle for electoral reform.

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