What is the Industrial Revolution? The Industrial revolution is a time period where people started using machines to do work instead of themselves. This make work more efficient and easier. During the late 1700s in Britain the revolution began. One website says ¨Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production¨. This is important to history because it sparked inventions and was a big step to make it how it is today. For example mass production. This is a concept that changed the way factories made products. They now had the ability to make a great amount of products faster due to the machines by the Industrial revolution (also assembly lines). …show more content…
Inventions played a key role in the Industrial revolution. One of the most prominent and effective invention was steel. Steel was and still is used in many goods as stated here ¨In the 1850s, British engineer Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) developed the first inexpensive process for mass-producing steel. Both iron and steel became essential materials, used to make everything from appliances, tools and machines, to ships, buildings and infrastructure¨. The steel industry was boosted during the Industrial revolution and spread through Europe and eventually North America. Just this one invention is used in virtually everything. The disseminating of steel and other inventions were very significant to the Industrial