The Industrial Revolution: What is it and how did it start?

The Industrial Revolution:
What is it and how did it start?
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The Industrial Revolution: What is it and how did it start?
The Two Phases of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution may be divided into two phases: the First Industrial Revolution which happened in 1760 to 1830 and the Second Industrial Revolution which occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. For the purpose of this paper, we will cover only the First Industrial Revolution which was largely confined in Britain.[ADDIN Mendeley Citation{01dea287-1aa1-448d-ab49-a5ba784801cc} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Encyclopedia Britannica", "given" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online Academic Edition", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011" ] ] }, "title" : "Industrial Revolution", "type" : "entry-encyclopedia" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=01dea287-1aa1-448d-ab49-a5ba784801cc" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "Encyclopedia Britannica, \u201cIndustrial Revolution.\u201d" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } Encyclopedia Britannica, "Industrial Revolution."]
What was the industrial revolution?
The industrial revolution marks the period of social and economic chance from "a stable agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial society relying on complex machinery rather than tools. It started in England in the 18th century and has spread to other parts of the world.[ADDIN Mendeley Citation{ec45c4f6-71e6-4153-aa3e-5f110eef6476} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "URL" : "/topics/industrial-revolution", "accessed" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011", "10", "25" ] ] }, "author" : [ { "family" : "History.com", "given" : "" } ], "container-title" : "History.com", "id" : "ITEM-1", "title" : "Industrial Revolution", "type" : "webpage" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=ec45c4f6-71e6-4153-aa3e-5f110eef6476" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "History.com, \u201cIndustrial Revolution.\u201d" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } History.com, "Industrial Revolution."]
While the term "revolution" connotes a "sudden, violent and unaparalleled change" the changes brought about the Industrial Revolution was gradual. The changes it made in the social and economic structure of England were nonetheless, dramatic. The term "industrial revolution" was popularized by Arnold Toynbee and which he described as the period when the old economic structure was "suddenly broken to pieces by the mighty blows of the steam engine and the power loom." The Industrial Revolution occurred between 1760 to 1840 but there are researches which claim that it coul...