Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was an era where a lot of changes occurred in many things such as; the manufacture of metals, agriculture etc. The term ‘’revolution’’ in this context is used in the sense that it brought a great change of how things were done such as the production in agriculture (the further improvements done to increase food, wood an cotton production), in metallurgy a certain Abraham Darby managed to smelt pig iron with coke (which lessened the amount of trees which where chopped down to create fires to smelt the iron thus providing more wood for other things). 

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