What is Industrial Revolution?
[[File:Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg d. J. 002.jpg|thumb|right|[[Coalbrookdale]] is a town in England where new ideas for industry were tried. Here it is at night in 1801. The fires are from the large scale making of iron.]] The '''Industrial''' '''Revolution''' is the name of the time when there was a big change in the way things were made. Instead of things being hand-made in small workshops, they were made more cheaply in large quantities by [[machine]]s in [[factory|factories]]. This improved the idea of assembly lines. People found that they could make many more things using an [[assembly line]] than each person working individually. This [[mass production]] meant that the goods were sold for less. It started in the [[1760s]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Industrial History of European Countries|url=https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/industrial-history-of-european-countries|access-date=|website=www.erih.net}}</ref> Many people began to move from an [[agriculture|agricultural]] based life in the country to the towns where the factories offered more and better paid work. A [[Second Industrial Revolution]] began in the [[1870s]]. [[File:Powerloom weaving in 1835.jpg|350px|center|A [[loom]] in a [[weaving]] shed in 1835]] == Beginnings == The Industrial Revolution began in [[Great Britain]] in the 18th century. Many of the technological [[innovation]]s were of British origin.<ref>{{cite book|title= Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution |last1= Horn|first1=Jeff |last2= Rosenband|first2= Leonard|last3= Smith|first3= Merritt|year= 2010|publisher =MIT Press|location=Cambridge MA, USA, London |isbn= 978-0262515627}}</ref> In particular, the County of [[Shropshire]] was important, for it had both minerals (e.g. [[Iron#Iron_in_the_ground|iron ore]] and [[coal]]) and transport on the [[River Severn]].<ref>Szostak, Rick 1991. ''The role of transportation in the industrial revolution: a comparison of England and France. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.</ref><ref>Usher, Abbott Payson 1920. ''An introduction