industrial revolution
Manufacturing era shift
An industrial revolution is any period of rapid technological and economic transformation in which manufacturing shifts from hand production to machine-based industry.
The term applies to various modernization waves across different countries and eras: China's industrial revolution began in the late twentieth century. (Capitalized Industrial Revolution refers to the specific historical period beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.)
Adoption of current methods
- economic developmentStructured advancement of prosperity
- rapid growthFast increase in scale
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
modernization
Adoption of current methods
- economic developmentStructured advancement of prosperity
- rapid growthFast increase in scale
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- industrializationfactory, factories, manufacturing, urbanisation, assembly lines
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, manufacturing plant, manufacturing plants
- history topicswar history, ancient Rome, ancient Greece, World War II, Civil War
industrial revolutionagrarian society
Culture organized around farming
cottage industry · feudalism · subsistence farming · agricultural economy · medieval economy
industrial revolutionstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
gradual change · evolutionary change · continuity · stability · conservatism
industrial revolutionagrarianism
Doctrine valuing farm life
pastoralism · Luddism · deindustrialization · primitivism · anti-industrialism
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