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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The changes in the methods of production as well as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power-driven machinery. It started in England in about 1760, and spread to other countries with very varying time lags. The introduction of powered machinery such as the steam engine and power loom led to the concentration of large areas of manufacturing in large companies, and made some goods more plentiful and cheaper by mechanical production and economies of scale.
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- proper noun The major
technological ,socioeconomic andcultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from thereplacement of aneconomy based onmanual labour to one dominated byindustry andmachine manufacture .
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- noun the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
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Examples
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(This mania eventually subsided, however: by the Industrial Revolution, only a dozen or so tennis courts could be found in all of France.)
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This all changed with the Industrial Revolution, however, when advances in transportation and weaponry lethality, the appearance of modern concepts of nationalism, and the advent of mass literacy combined to transform armed conflict into a high-volume human meat-grinder, necessitating the recruiting and maintenance of huge conscript armies of temporary citizen-soldiers in order to fight “total” wars not of lord-against-lord or even state-against-state but of population-against-population.
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This all changed with the Industrial Revolution, however, when advances in transportation and weaponry lethality, the appearance of modern concepts of nationalism, and the advent of mass literacy combined to transform armed conflict into a high-volume human meat-grinder, necessitating the recruiting and maintenance of huge conscript armies of temporary citizen-soldiers in order to fight “total” wars not of lord-against-lord or even state-against-state but of population-against-population.
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But, as it was, even when the French Revolution had spent its force in the conquests of Napoleon, the Industrial Revolution stirred up enough social and political discontent.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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Reformation and the Renaissance the towns again are transformed; and yet more thoroughly than ever by the Industrial Revolution, with its factories, railways, steamships, and all that they bring with them.
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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It is no accident that this unprecedented rise started with the Industrial Revolution, since which humans have burned ever increasing amounts of fossil fuels: coal, natural gas and petroleum.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories Hal Sundin Post Independent Glenwood Springs 2010
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Until one day, along came the Industrial Revolution
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It is no accident that this unprecedented rise started with the Industrial Revolution, since which humans have burned ever increasing amounts of fossil fuels: coal, natural gas and petroleum.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories Hal Sundin Post Independent Glenwood Springs 2010
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Social changes that started with the Industrial Revolution had long ago passed the point of no return.
Economist's View 2009
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By 1832, the Industrial Revolution was well on its way to changing how many Americans lived, but the common man and his family were limited in how they earned their living out in the country.
unknown title 2009
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