Industrial Revolution

The historical period of rapid industrialization and technological change that began in late-18th-century England and spread globally, marked by the shift from agrarian and handcraft economies to machine-based manufacturing, urbanization, and profound social and environmental transformations.

Claims that use this term

• Steady-state flat-line sound is rare in nature and emerges only with the Industrial Revolution
• The triangular trade’s profits directly financed the Industrial Revolution in England
• Industrial Revolution life was marked by extraordinary poverty
• American territorial expansion, slavery, and cotton drove the Industrial Revolution symbiotically
• The Corpocene is emergent now, not dominant since the Industrial Revolution.