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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Causes
The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complex and remain a topic for debate, with some historians seeing the Revolution as an outg...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Social Problems
The industrial revolution led to a number of social problems within the newly developed working class. Children worked under miserable co...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Effects
The application of steam power to the industrial processes of printing supported a massive expansion of newspaper and popular book publis...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Intellectual Paradigms
Industrial Revolution - Capitalist.
The advent of The Enlightenment provided an intellectual framework which welcomed the practical app...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - The Second Industrial Revolution
The insatiable demand of the railroads for more durable rail led to the development of the means to cheaply mass-produce steel. Steel is ...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Criticism
Industrial Revolution - Marxism.
See main article Marxism
Karl Marx saw the industrialization process as the logical dialectical progre...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Transportation
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastwise vessels employed to mov...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Steam Power
The stationary steam engine had great influence on the progress of the Industrial Revolution, but for the period of the Industrial Revolu...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Innovations
The invention of the steam engine was the most important innovation of the industrial revolution. This was made possible by earlier impro...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Factories
Industrialisation also led to the creation of the factory. John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby was operational by 1721. In 1746...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Machine Tools
The Industrial Revolution could not have developed without machine tools, for they enabled manufacturing machines to be made. They have t...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Textile Manufacture
In the early 18th century, British textile manufacture was based on wool which was processed by individual artisans, doing the spinning a...
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Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Metallurgy
In the early 18th century, small-scale iron working and extraction and processing of other metals were carried out where local resources ...
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