Industrial Revolution In Britain

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Examines the origins and impact of technology and modernization on the transportation system including canals, turnpikes, shipping, commerce, railways, steam engines and stagecoaches

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"A conventional date for the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Britain is about 1770. This date corresponds fairly well to the substantive beginning of several developments that, taken together, seem to mark the difference in character between the industrial age and the pre-industrial world.

James Watt's steam engine made possible the application of artificially generated power to a wide range of processes, unlike its far more limited predecessor the Newcomen engine. The technique of mass production began to be pursued in a systematic and regular way, enough so for Adam Smith to employ his famous example of a pin-making factory as a contrast to traditional craft production. The publication of The Wealth of Nations itself both promulgated and marked a changing conception of what wealth was and how it was created; while Smith's economic theory ..."

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