Industrial Revolution Definition
Industrial Revolution
noun
the change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machine and power tools and the development of large-scale industrial production: applied to this development in England from about 1760 and to later changes in other countries
Industrial Revolution Usage Examples
Preposition: of
century: The Miners cottages were the home of many of the shale miners throughout the industrial revolution of the 19th Century.
Possessives
world: This is where the world's industrial revolution began in earnest, a direct result of James Brindley's Birmingham Canal.
Converse of object
follow: Coventry rapidly became a center of the engineering industry following the industrial revolution.
Adjective modifier
first: We are still dealing with the slums, slag-heaps, derelict land and foul rivers of the first industrial revolution.
Preposition: in
century: Much of the rest was ravaged before the beginning of the industrial revolution in the 18th century.
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