The moving assembly line was the start of an industrial revolution.
This was before the industrial revolution and so without all that spinning there would have been no fabric.
Ocean acidification, or the changing chemical make-up of seawater, has occurred since the industrial revolution as ocean waters absorbed too much carbon dioxide.
If even a fraction of the carbon is released, it could be greater than all the greenhouse gases we have released to since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
The industrial revolution had taken place in England first.
Laws that became the basis of a technological and social revolution: steam power and the industrial revolution.
Canals were the cargo airports of their day, used to carry the raw materials that powered Britain's industrial revolution.
Even in 1820, as the industrial revolution in Britain was gathering pace, the two Asian giants still accounted for half the world's GDP.
In Europe, the industrial revolution at first needed large quantities of unskilled manual Labour; but as it developed, there was a growing need for the workforce to be literate and numerate.
History divides itself into two parts: the world before the industrial revolution and the world after the industrial revolution.
During the first 50 years of Britain's industrial revolution, real wages remained more or less flat while profits soared.
So although the size of the effect has increased markedly since the industrial revolution, it looks as if humanity has been interfering with the climate since the dawn of civilisation.
After all, the industrial revolution is far from finished.
It is this culture of continuous improvement, which was only accelerated by the industrial revolution, that explains the astonishing improvements in the human condition over time.
The two are plotting what they hope will be the next great industrial revolution: the convergence of software and smart electronics with the grease and grime of the oil and car industries.
Few countries have ever enjoyed an industrial revolution without first undergoing a revolution in agriculture, a point both Mr Gates and Mr Timmer are keen to stress.
Early in the industrial revolution, workplaces typically had no clocks.
After the development of substitution for import, Singapore caught the chance to develop export industry in time, and improved the structure through twice industrial revolution.
As a centre of the industrial revolution, Manchester is known as the Capital of the North and takes "Concilio Et Labore" or "wisdom and effort" as its motto.
The important role of MI in the modernization is explained from viewpoints that: MI creats the human; MI is the main force to the industrial revolution; romantic and realistic; reliable modernization; safe modernization, etc.
For a long time, we were craftsmen, until the industrial revolution brought scale and systematic manufacturing.
So why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain and not along the Yangzi river?
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