Industrial Revolution

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the Industrial Revolution

  1. (historical) The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.
    • 1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future[1]:
      The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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