Industrial age

There is a single-frame cartoon I saw on the Internet a while ago which depicts a middle-aged couple in a bedroom in a medieval setting. One of them is looking out at the glorious sun rising over the hills and exclaims to the other, “Thank goodness! Look dear! At last the Reformation has arrived!”

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The first practical steam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen in the early eighteenth century. Steam was one of the driving forces behind the industrial revolution, allowing mills and other factories to be located away from rivers.

This photo shows workers at their stations in a factory. One can see the assigned parts, showing a vital component of the revolution: the assembly line, which allowed for rapid production.

The industrial revolution cannot be viewed as a simple transition from an agricultural and domestic economy to one dominated by factory regimes but rather as a restructuring of economy and society.…

The Industrial Revolution occurred when agrarian societies became more industrialized and urban. Learn where and when the Industrial Revolution started, and the inventions that made it possible.

Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1785. The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom. It was an invention that combined threads to make cloth.

a busy factory during the industrial revolution

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