INDUSTRIALAGE

Industrial Age

The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.

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