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What is the meaning of Industrial Revolution? |
| Answer» \tThe term ‘Industrial Revolution’ was used by European scholars – George Michelet in France and Friedrich Engles in Germany.\tIt refers to the\xa0great change in the field of industries when the production of goods by hand in the houses were replaced with the help of machines in factories.\tThe transformation of industry and the economy in Britain between the 1780s and the 1850s is called the ‘first industrial revolution’.\tIt was used for the first time in English by the philosopher and economist Arnold Toynbee (1852-83), to describe the changes that occurred in British industrial development between 1760 and 1820. These dates coincided with those of the reign of George III.\tIt revolutionised the techniques and organisation of production in the later half of the eighteenth century. | |