Definition of Industrial revolution
1. Noun. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
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Literary usage of Industrial revolution
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1. The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the by Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles (1922)
"There were two phases of the industrial revolution : the first was limited by
... The reasons for the development of the " industrial revolution " in Great ..."
2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"There would have been an industrial revolution of sorts if there had been no
coal, no steam, no machinery; but in that case it would probably have followed ..."
3. British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1922)
"CHAPTER IX The industrial revolution—Rural: enclosures and Speenhamland—Urban:
machines and factories—Coal and iron—Cotton and wool—Material and moral ..."
4. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely (1893)
"CHAPTER V. THE industrial revolution IN ENGLAND*—PART L THE passage from the
trades and commerce stage to the industrial stage is generally known in England ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"EL Bogart on the industrial revolution. It will suffice at this place to describe
... The effects of the industrial revolution amount in their totality to ..."
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