Definition of Industrial revolution

1. Noun. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.

Exact synonyms: Technological Revolution
Generic synonyms: Age, Historic Period

Definition of Industrial revolution

1. Proper noun. The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Industrial Revolution

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industrial revolution (current term)
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Literary usage of Industrial revolution

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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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