Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution was a transformative period from the late 18th to 19th centuries marked by the shift from agrarian, handcraft economies to industrial, machine-based manufacturing and rapid technological, social, and economic change.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf economic transformation
historical period
technological revolution
field economic history
social history
technological history
followedBy Age of Imperialism
Second Industrial Revolution
modern industrial society
hasCause advances in technology
agricultural revolution
availability of coal and iron
development of financial institutions
growth of trade
hasEffect changes in family structure
changes in working conditions
child labor in factories
decline of cottage industry
environmental pollution
expansion of colonialism
global economic integration
growth of consumer culture
growth of the middle class
improvements in transportation
increase in productivity
labor movements
mass production
new social reform movements
population growth
proletarianization of labor
rise of capitalism
rise of factory system
standardization of goods
technological innovation
urbanization
hasEndTime 19th century
hasKeyFigure Eli Whitney
George Stephenson
James Watt
Richard Arkwright
Samuel Crompton
hasKeyInvention cotton gin
machine tools
power loom
railway locomotive
spinning jenny
steam engine
steamship
water frame
hasLocation United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States

Western Europe
hasMainLocation Great Britain
hasPart canal building
chemical industry beginnings
development of machine tools
factory system
improvements in agriculture
iron and steel production advances
mechanization of textile production
railway expansion
steam power revolution
hasStartTime late 18th century
precededBy pre-industrial society
significantFor development of modern capitalism
foundation of modern global economy
origin of modern industrial cities
rise of wage labor
shift from handcraft to machine production
transition from agrarian to industrial economy

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James Keir area of influence Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: British industrial revolution
Matthew Boulton associatedWith Industrial Revolution
St Mary’s Church, Cromford associatedWith Industrial Revolution
The Rocket associatedWith Industrial Revolution
Wedgwood family associatedWithMovement Industrial Revolution
City of Firsts associatedWithPeriod Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: American Industrial Revolution
subject surface form: City of a Thousand Trades
Great Exhibition of 1851 category Industrial Revolution
Worsley category Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: Industrial Revolution in England
Merthyr Rising of 1831 chronologicalPlacement Industrial Revolution
Holocene containsEvent Industrial Revolution
Hyde developedDuring Industrial Revolution
Mossley developedDuring Industrial Revolution
Nelson developedDuring Industrial Revolution
Stalybridge developedDuring Industrial Revolution
Birmingham developedRapidlyDuring Industrial Revolution
Bootle developedSignificantlyDuring Industrial Revolution
Alexander Lyman Holley era Industrial Revolution
Bessemer process era Industrial Revolution
Douglas Navigation era Industrial Revolution
subject surface form: Frederick Winsor
Great Stone Dam era Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: American Industrial Revolution
Isambard Kingdom Brunel era Industrial Revolution
John Rennie the Elder era Industrial Revolution
John Wilkinson era Industrial Revolution
Killingworth Colliery era Industrial Revolution
Leeds and Liverpool Canal era Industrial Revolution
Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer era Industrial Revolution
Pont-y-Cafnau era Industrial Revolution
Robert Fulton era Industrial Revolution
Sir William Cubitt era Industrial Revolution
Thomas Bentley era Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: Industrial Revolution (early phase)
Watt steam engine era Industrial Revolution
Early Modern period followedBy Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: Industrial Age
Scientific Revolution followedBy Industrial Revolution
Second Industrial Revolution follows Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: First Industrial Revolution
Halifax hasEconomicHistoryPeriod Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution hasEffect Industrial Revolution
European labour movement hasHistoricalContext Industrial Revolution
Europe hasHistoricalEvent Industrial Revolution
Killingworth hasHistoricalPeriod Industrial Revolution
Western civilization hasHistoricalPeriod Industrial Revolution
Slaithwaite hasHistoricalPeriodOfGrowth Industrial Revolution
Georgian era hasPart Industrial Revolution
Anthropocene hasProposedStart Industrial Revolution
Ermen & Engels historicalContext Industrial Revolution
Agecroft Colliery historicalEra Industrial Revolution
this entity surface form: Industrial Revolution period