The Industrial Revolution | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-07

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00:04:56 1 Etymology
00:07:08 2 Important technological developments
00:10:09 2.1 Textile manufacture
00:10:19 2.1.1 British textile industry statistics
00:12:37 2.1.2 Cotton
00:15:06 2.1.3 Trade and textiles
00:16:38 2.1.4 Pre-mechanized European textile production
00:18:57 2.1.5 Invention of textile machinery
00:26:49 2.1.6 Wool
00:27:17 2.1.7 Silk
00:28:12 2.2 Iron industry
00:28:22 2.2.1 UK iron production statistics
00:30:46 2.2.2 Iron process innovations
00:42:39 2.3 Steam power
00:48:58 2.4 Machine tools
00:54:50 2.5 Chemicals
00:58:46 2.6 Cement
00:59:48 2.7 Gas lighting
01:01:00 2.8 Glass making
01:01:52 2.9 Paper machine
01:02:50 2.10 Agriculture
01:05:05 2.11 Mining
01:07:38 2.12 Transportation
01:09:01 2.12.1 Canals and improved waterways
01:12:38 2.12.2 Roads
01:14:17 2.12.3 Railways
01:18:47 2.13 Other developments
01:19:19 3 Social effects
01:19:29 3.1 Factory system
01:22:35 3.2 Standards of living
01:25:15 3.2.1 Food and nutrition
01:27:22 3.2.2 Housing
01:30:11 3.2.3 Sanitation
01:31:00 3.2.4 Water supply
01:31:30 3.2.5 Increase in literacy
01:31:59 3.3 Clothing and consumer goods
01:32:57 3.4 Population increase
01:34:06 3.5 Urbanization
01:34:57 3.6 Impact on women and family life
01:37:54 3.7 Labour conditions
01:38:04 3.7.1 Social structure and working conditions
01:39:43 3.7.2 Factories and urbanisation
01:43:06 3.7.3 Child labour
01:47:28 3.7.4 Organisation of labour
01:51:42 3.7.5 Luddites
01:53:37 3.7.6 Shift in production's center of gravity
01:54:21 3.7.7 Effect on cotton production and expansion of slavery
01:56:19 3.8 Impact on environment
01:59:44 4 Industrialisation beyond the United Kingdom
01:59:56 4.1 Continental Europe
02:01:01 4.1.1 Belgium
02:03:38 4.1.1.1 Demographic effects
02:06:44 4.1.2 France
02:07:50 4.1.3 Germany
02:10:01 4.1.4 Sweden
02:12:14 4.2 Japan
02:13:52 4.3 United States
02:21:51 5 Second Industrial Revolution
02:24:06 6 Causes
02:29:33 6.1 Causes in Europe
02:36:42 6.2 Causes in Britain
02:46:23 6.3 Transfer of knowledge
02:49:40 6.3.1 Protestant work ethic
02:52:27 7 Opposition from Romanticism



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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. The Industrial Revolution also led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth.
Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested. The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods.The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, and many of the technological innovations were of British origin.  By the mid-18th century Britain was the world's leading commercial nation, controlling a global trading empire with colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and with some political influence on the Indian subcontinent, through the activities of the East India Company. The development of trade and the rise of business were major causes of the Industrial Revolution.The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. In particular, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.  Some economists say that the major impact of the Industrial Revolution was that the standard of living for the general population began to increase consistently for the first time in history, although others have said that it did not begin to mean ...