Industrial Revolution Definition

noun
The change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machine and power tools and the development of factories and large-scale industrial production.
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Synonyms:
  • technological-revolution
pronoun

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.

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