Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revalution Notes (1) During certain periods in history, innovations in technology have grown at such a rapid pace that they have produced what have become known as industrial revolutions. The term INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION originally referred to the developments that transformed Great Britain, between 1750 and 1830, from a largely rural population making a living almost entirely from agriculture to a town-centred society engaged increasingly in factory manufacture. ... The Indutrial Revolution started in England, because that nation had the technological means, government encouragement, and a large and varied trade network. ... The capital, business skills and technical expertise earlier acquired by drapers and cotton manufacturers were now redeployed to make eastern Ulster the one part of Ireland where the industrial revolution made spectacular progress in the nineteenth century. (3) ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution.