What was the Industrial Revolution about? Published Friday, May
11, 2007 by R. Edmondson | E-mail this post The Industrial
Revolution was a time of dramatic social, economical and
technological changes. It was a period that was defined by a
major and rapid transition from an agricultural and commercial
society (an economy based on manual labor) to a modern
industrial society dominated by new technology powered machines
(an economy based on complex machinery). The Industrial
Revolution era began in the late 18th and early 19th century
first, started in Britain then spread to other nations. It was
an revolutionary change in the sense that it led to an entirely
new method of how work was done. There were now; several
factories with complex machines manufacturing all kinds of
products under what is called mass production; large industrial
cities with new jobs that caused people to move in large numbers
looking for employment; the transportation system was
revolutionized through use of steam-powered machines (fuel