HIST 122 : Semester Two Lecture Notes.docx
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Plan this week: defining the industrial revolution, mergence and processe, social and economic characteristic, global dimensions. What it was not : not the beginning of industrialization, not the beginning of innovation, not the beginning of economic growth, it was the change in the degree of change . An acceleration in the way society, technology is changing: a fundamental discontinuity. Timeframe: mid-late18th century to early-mid 19th century, second industrial revolution. Defining the process: series of major technological innovations. Entirely new way: new modes of transportation. Railways, steam-powered boats more efficient: a factor-based economy, accelerated structural change in technology, economy and society, revolutionized the economy of the west and eventually the rest of the world. Inventions and innovations: (1) advances in broad fronts: Textile, metallurgy, mining, transport, agriculture, and power production. (b) after 1768-jenny, water frame, watt s engine, seed drill, etc.
