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The Industrial Revolution
One of the most influential revolution of all time, without this breakthrough that changed how the whole world live their lifes , I wouldn’t be able to be doing this assignment right now on a computer. So what is the industrial revolution? Where did it take place? How did it really affect way we live today? All these question will answers in the following paragraphs.
Although it occurred around the same time as the French, American, and the Latin American revolution between 1750 to 1850, the industrial revolution was really the most revolutionary of the bunch. Most people lived on or very close the lands that provided food for them, life expectancy never rose above 35 or below 25, education was a privilege not a right , and in all the previous millennia we never developed a weapon that could kill more than a couple of dozen at once, or a way to travel that is faster than horse back. For fifteen thousand years , most humans never owned or used a single item made outside of their communities, it provided the invention of electricity, crops grown on seasons that is not theirs is also the effects of the industrial revolution. Every single thing we use today is in some way related to the industrial revolution.
Before the industrial revolution around 80% of the worlds population was engaged in farming to keep it self and the other 20 % from starving , today in the United States less than 1% list their occupants as farming. The industrial revolution was brought about by the increase in production by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy sources .
It began around 1775 and it occurred across most of the earth, but it started in Europe , especially Britain. The innovation of the industrial revolution were intimately interconnected for instance, the British textile industry and the invention of the flying shuttle by john kay in 1733 dramatically increased the speed of weaving which