the Industrial Revolution

noun

: the major social and economic changes that occurred in Britain, Europe, and the U.S. in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when new machinery, new sources of power, and new ways of manufacturing products were developed

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Nearly every nation on Earth has signed onto the Paris climate agreement of stopping global average temperatures from exceeding roughly 1.5 degrees Celsius above temperatures before the Industrial Revolution. —

Justine Calma, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2024 In England, in the days before the Industrial Revolution ruined everything, there were two professions a gentleman could pursue: wine merchant and rare-book dealer. —

Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 The original theory of thermodynamics went hand in hand with the Industrial Revolution, which was useful in a very different sense. —

Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024 Scholars have observed that the emergence of AI is comparable to the Industrial Revolution. —

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